disc (n.)

Latinate spelling preferred in British English for most uses of disk (q.v.). American English tends to use it in the musical recording sense (1888); originally of phonograph records, recently of compact discs.

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disk (n.)

1660s, "round, approximately flat surface," from Latin discus "quoit, discus, disk," from Greek diskos "disk, quoit, platter," related to dikein "to throw" (see discus).

The American English preferred spelling; also see disc. From 1803 as "thin, circular plate;" sense of "phonograph disk" is by 1888; computing sense is from 1947. Disk jockey first recorded 1941; dee-jay is from 1955; DJ is by 1961; video version veejay is from 1982. Disk-drive is from 1952.

discography (n.)

"catalogue of recordings by a composer or performer," 1933; see disc + -graphy.

discophile

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Definitions of disc from WordNet

disc (n.)

sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove;

Synonyms: phonograph record / phonograph recording / record / disk / platter

disc (n.)

something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate;

Synonyms: disk / saucer

disc (n.)

(computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored;

Synonyms: magnetic disk / magnetic disc / disk

disc (n.)

a flat circular plate;

Synonyms: disk

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