- a variation of disc.
disk
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Smith has started and re-started baseball activities, only to find out that the inflamed disk in his neck flares up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
A tilted accretion disk around a black hole could also create bumps in the light curve.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
Over time, the disk spirals inward, causing the wobble to speed up.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
Smith said he had been diagnosed with an inflamed disk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The lid to the manhole was now completely removed, making the half-moon above him a round disk of blue afternoon sky.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
Astrolabes are metallic disks with multi-layered, interlocking components that were historically used to tell the time, map the stars, the direction of Mecca and the motion of the sky.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
The disks sit in a jumble of gleaming metal equipment; Ms. Fox, in a pale-blue hazmat suit and surgical mask, peers in at them through a window.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
Instead of a single resonance signal, some disks produced a series of closely spaced lines, forming what is known as a frequency comb.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
The International Ice Hockey Federation apparently secured the frozen vulcanized rubber disks immediately after the games and handed them to the Hall of Fame located in Toronto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Women sucked their bottom lips and put little red disks down in numbered squares.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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