Definition: 1. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves. 2. Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate. 3. (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored. 4. A flat circular plate.
Use 'disc' in a sentence:
1. The colours rotated around on a disc and were reflected onto the wall behind.
2. The compact disc is a miracle of modern technology.
3. The latest discs, used for small portable computers, spin 3600 times a minute.
4. This disc includes the piano sonata in C minor.
5. The Auto Compact Disc Cleaner can run off batteries or mains.
6. Ultimate frisbee combines the traditional game of disc toss with the tackling techniques of football and the goalie position in soccer.
7. This document is a partially contrived purchase order for a compact disc/tape player from the Aiwa corporation.
8. But in Japan, the compact disc is still king.
9. The colours rotated round on a disc and were reflected onto the wall behind.
10. Disc recording is needed in the lab.
11. You'd need about 3700 Blu-ray discs to hold that much data.
12. Laser discs can store prodigious amounts of information.
13. On most systems, a driver enters a desired address, motorway junction or point of interest via a touch screen or disc.
14. I had slipped a disc and was frozen in a spasm of pain.
15. One is the standard 12-track disc,
16. The gramophone had been eclipsed by new technology such as the compact disc.
17. The objective is to observe the expression of MMP-1and TIMP-1 in nucleus pulposus cells of intervertebral disc degeneration.
18. Carl slipped a disc in his back while warming up.
19. I know in each compact disc, there is a paragraph.
20. While the Disc Depot's owners have apparently become wealthy enough to retire, profits at Carlo's Clothing have remained stagnant for the past three years.
21. Powell ruptured a disc in his back and was laid up for a year.
22. At the end of the process, you will have the option to create a system repair disc.
23. He realized that, from different latitudes, the passage of the planet across the Sun's disc would appear to differ.
24. Is this a disc?
25. Today's floppy disc drives are tolerant of poor quality discs.
26. Users can download MP3 music files and record them directly onto a CD audio disc using a PC CD writer.
27. They've just lent me a laser disc player.
28. He hands a metal disc to me.
29. Sony has also led the way in shrinking the size of compact-disc players.
30. Compact discs have brought about a vast improvement in recorded sound quality.
31. This recording is available on disc or cassette.
32. He's been off work with a slipped disc.
33. Most shredding machines are based on a revolving disc fitted with replaceable blades.
34. Publishers no longer have to worry about piracy, as their games live in the cloud rather than on a disc that can be copied.
35. The Sun, Moon, and the planets formed from a huge spinning gas cloud that collapsed into a gyrating disc.
36. The second problem is that Venus exhibits a halo of light when it is seen just outside the Sun's disc.
37. Users can download MP3 music files and record them directly onto a CD audio disc using a PC CD burner.
38. a more intelligent and articulate breed of disc jockeys, typified by university graduate Simon Mayo.
39. The advanced 96k upsampling raises the bar for playback of movies, television, and concert films mastered for Blu-ray Disc.
40. The electronics company Sony has announced the death of the man credited with developing the compact disc, Norio Ohga.
41. It looked like a huge disc.
42. The album was all recorded in 24-bit digital to a hard disc system utilizing Cakewalk Sonar software as the main recording tool.
43. The sagittal reconstruction was performed with all the 79 lumbar disc lesions of lumbar vertebrae and rumpbone vertebrae.
44. These discs hold more than 400 times as much information as a conventional computer floppy disk.
45. The soundtrack of 'Highlander II' will be released on compact disc at Easter.
46. This is a disc.
47. This March, a British and an American company will do battle in the High Court over the right to press compact discs.
48. When Venus begins to cross the Sun's disc, it looks smeared not circular—which makes it difficult to establish timings.
49. The Beatles cut their first disc in 1962.
50. In order to boost our sales and profits, we should therefore switch from newspaper advertising to frequent radio advertisements like those for Disc Depot.
51. The turning disc is connected by a drive belt to an electric motor.
52. The two discs also contain two of Britten's lesser-known song-cycles.
53. He wears an identity disc around his neck.
54. If so, then perhaps that first disc-shape symbol might represent the Sun.
55. He took the compact disc from her, then fed it into the player.
