- a variation of disc.
disk
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During a total solar eclipse, the Moon completely blocks the bright disk of the Sun, making the much fainter solar corona visible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
A total solar eclipse means the Moon's disk will completely cover the Sun - and it is expected to last for six minutes and 23 seconds, the longest on land since 1991.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
"It's quite significant. It's not the greatest prize, a total eclipse, but it is a partial eclipse of almost nine-tenths of the sun's disk," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
A circumplanetary disk is the rotating collection of material around a young planet from which moons can form.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Ever since it was unearthed, the disk has posed a mystery for historians of writing.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
It had four kilobytes of memory, a black-and-white monitor and used floppy disks that truly flopped when you shook them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Ordinary stars often display silicate emission associated with dusty disks.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Some may gradually emerge within disks of gas and dust surrounding young stars, while others could form through a process more similar to the collapse that creates stars themselves.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026
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
Three boys who lived around the corner on Orinda were at the carom table, which is like pool but with small wooden disks instead of balls.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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