# Disc

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**Disc** or **disk** may refer to:

## Science and technology

### Computing

- [Disk storage](/source/Disk_storage), a data storage mechanism based on a rotating disk - [Floppy disk](/source/Floppy_disk) - [Optical disc](/source/Optical_disc) - [Hard disk drive](/source/Hard_disk_drive)

### Mathematics

- [Disk (mathematics)](/source/Disk_(mathematics)), the region in a plane bounded by a circle
- [Absolutely convex set](/source/Absolutely_convex_set) of a real or complex vector space

### Biology

- [Intervertebral disc](/source/Intervertebral_disc), a cartilage between vertebrae in vertebrate animals
- Disk, a [part of a flower](/source/Glossary_of_plant_morphology#Disk)
- [Death-inducing signaling complex](/source/Death-inducing_signaling_complex) (DISC), a protein complex

## Arts and entertainment

- [Disc (band)](/source/Disc_(band)), an American experimental music band 1997–1999
- *Disk*, a 1995 promotional EP for "[Everytime You Touch Me](/source/Everytime_You_Touch_Me)" by Moby
- [*Disc* (magazine)](/source/Disc_(magazine)), a British music magazine 1958–1975

## Sports

- [Discus throw](/source/Discus_throw) or disc throw, a track and field event involving a heavy disc
- [Frisbee](/source/Frisbee), or disc, a gliding toy or sporting item
- [Delaware Independent School Conference](/source/Delaware_Independent_School_Conference) (DISC), a high-school athletic conference
- [Dundee International Sports Centre](/source/Dundee_International_Sports_Centre) (DISC), a sports centre in Scotland

## Other uses

- [DISC assessment](/source/DISC_assessment), a pseudoscientific personality testing tool
- [Disc harrow](/source/Disc_harrow), a farm implement for surface tillage
- [Disc number](/source/Disc_number), numbers assigned to Inuit by the Government of Canada
- [Galactic disc](/source/Galactic_disc), a component of disc galaxies
- [Defence Intelligence and Security Centre](/source/Defence_Intelligence_and_Security_Centre) (DISC), formerly at MOD Chicksands base, England
- [Domestic international sales corporation](/source/Domestic_international_sales_corporation) (DISC), a provision in U.S. tax law
- [International Symposium on Distributed Computing](/source/International_Symposium_on_Distributed_Computing) (DISC), an academic conference
- [Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey](/source/Confederation_of_Revolutionary_Trade_Unions_of_Turkey) (*Türkiye Devrimci İşçi Sendikaları Konfederasyonu*, DİSK)

## See also

- [Spelling of disc](/source/Spelling_of_disc)
- [Cylinder (disambiguation)](/source/Cylinder_(disambiguation))
- [Discus (disambiguation)](/source/Discus_(disambiguation))

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