Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
magnetic disc \magnetic disc\, magnetic disk \magnetic disk\n. A ditical memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored; a hard disk, floppy disk, and diskette are typically magnetic disks.
Syn: disk, disc.
WordNet
n. (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored [syn: magnetic disc, disk, disc]
Usage examples of "magnetic disk".
The system could not cope with the canny way the magnetic disk cut, moved and tilted, cut again.
If the magnetic disk struck cleanly it would cling to the Station's hull, Otherwise Adam would have to reel it in and try again.
By the operation of the black arm with its magnetic disk, the timemachine was lifted from the platform and deposited on the dais not far from the tall contrivance of multi-colored metals.
Ivan Yoshida leaned far out, reaching, the other hand gripping tightly to a rail, slapped a magnetic disk on the hull alongside, and then another.