What is "disks"

Usage examples of "disks".

Most of them were filled with the slender cases of information disks, but one shelf was devoted to booksperhaps two dozen of them.

All around them were shelved disks and spooled data in boxes, interspersed with darkened vision screens and disk readers.

Now the bars between the cells had been removed, and the space had been turned into living quarters with sofas and chairs, a small kitchen, a disk reader and a shelf of disks, a viewscreen, and in one corner the inevitable payday couch.

They were inhaling heavily as they jumped from their disks, found themselves at the junction of six recently made tunnels.

Absently, he fitted all eight fingers and two thumbs into the holes and began to feel and press to see if there existed an easy way to get the silver disks out, for he had already ascertained that any attempt to pry up the bronze decoration would most likely give him only a broken knifeblade to show for his troubles.

They all wore homemade Struggle badges pinned to their singlets: cardboard disks painted with the current slogans.

Inside was a honeycomb of three-foot metal disks that looked like a wall of storage drums.

Because of the ancient rivalry between Grail and Roembden, the computer logs there were in disorder, and no one knew whether a portion of the memory disks had been destroyed or had ended up, perhaps, in some archive outside Switzerland.

Cadderly launched the disks finally, in a long and wide throw that brought them to the very end of their reach.

He flicked his wrist, bringing the disks back to his grasp, but not with the usual suddenness.

The disks came on again, and Rufo leaned back, then rushed toward Cadderly right behind them as they retracted.

Rufo turned back just in time to catch the soaring disks right between the eyes.

He shuffled his bare feet on the cool metal disks, looking down in embarrassment.

Ryan knew there would be a main control area, all whirling comp-wheels, disks, dials and flickering lights.

After the dimness of the tunnels, the array of comp-panels and whirring and spinning disks was dazzling.