Disk vs. Diskette — What's the Difference?

US spelling of disc, also widely used in computing contexts

(computing) A small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data.

A thin, flat, circular object or plate.

See floppy disk.

Something resembling such an object

An 8-inch floppy disk.

The disk used in a disc brake.

A data-storage medium consisting of a small plastic disk coated with a thin layer of magnetizable material on one or both sides, enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit. It is used in a specially designed disk drive, in which the disk is rotated at high speed, and which stores data on the disk by causing changes in the direction of magnetization of the magnetic layer as the disk spins and as sequential locations on the disk pass under the read-write head of the drive. Reading of the data occurs in the reverse process, by detection of the patterns of magnetization of the disk. Such disks are used to store data or programs for a microcomputer.

A disk used on a disk harrow.

A small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer;

A round, flattened structure in a plant or animal, such as an intervertebral disk.

(Botany) The central area bearing numerous disk flowers in the flower head of a composite plant such as a daisy.

An optical disc, especially a compact disc.

A magnetic disk, such as a floppy disk or hard disk.

The data stored on such objects.

A phonograph record.

A circular grid in a phototypesetting machine.

To work (soil) with a disk harrow.

To make (a recording) on a phonograph record.

A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

(figuratively) Something resembling a disk.

(anatomy) An intervertebral disc

(dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

(computer hardware) floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.

A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.

(agriculture) A type of harrow.

(botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

(agriculture) To harrow.

To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.

A discus; a quoit.

A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.

The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.

A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.

The whole surface of a leaf.

The anterior surface or oral area of cœlenterate animals, as of sea anemones.

Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate

A flat circular plate

Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves

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

Draw a harrow over (land)