mining excavation | the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth |
excavation digging dig | the act of digging, there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton |
optic cup eyecup | (embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina |
acetate disk phonograph recording disk | a disk coated with cellulose acetate |
brake disk | a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel, pressure is applied to it by the brake pads |
compact disk compact disc CD | a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record, played back by a laser |
compact-disk burner CD burner | recording equipment for making compact disks |
disk disc | a flat circular plate |
disk access | memory access to the computer disk on which information is stored |
disk brake disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
disk cache | a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk |
disk clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are disks |
disk controller | (computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive |
disk drive disc drive hard drive Winchester drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
diskette floppy floppy disk | a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit, used to store data or programs for a microcomputer, floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price |
disk harrow disc harrow | a harrow with a series of disks set on edge at an angle |
excavation | a hole in the ground made by excavating |
fiber optic cable fibre optic cable | a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light |
fiber-optic transmission system fibre-optic transmission system FOTS | a communication system using fiber optic cables |
hard disc hard disk fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
magnetic disk magnetic disc disk disc | (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored |
optical disk optical disc | a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface, is read with a laser that scans the surface |
phonograph record phonograph recording record disk disc platter | sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove, used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove |
RAM disk | (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors, access to a RAM disk is very fast but the data it contains is lost when the system is turned off |
Rayleigh disk | an acoustic radiometer consisting of a light disk suspended from a quartz thread, when exposed to a progressive sound wave its torque can measure velocity |
removable disk | a hard disk that can be removed from the disk drive, removal prevents unauthorized use |
circularity disk shape | the roundness of a -dimensional figure |
optic chiasma optic chiasm chiasma opticum | the crossing of the optic nerves from the two eyes at the base of the brain |
optic radiation radiatio optica | a nerve pathway from the lateral geniculate body to the visual cortex |
intervertebral disc intervertebral disk | a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two) |
eye oculus optic | the organ of sight |
blind spot optic disc optic disk | the point where the optic nerve enters the retina, not sensitive to light |
optic nerve nervus opticus second cranial nerve optic tract | the cranial nerve that serves the retina |
principal axis optic axis | a line that passes through the center of curvature of a lens so that light is neither reflected nor refracted, in a normal eye the optic axis is the direction in which objects are seen most distinctly |
optic axis | in a doubly refracting crystal, the line in the direction of which no double refraction occurs, a crystal may have either one or two optic axes |
disk file | (computer science) a computer file stored on a magnetic disk and identified by a unique label |
DOS disk operating system | an operating system that is on a disk |
MS-DOS Microsoft disk operating system | an operating system developed by Bill Gates for personal computers |
disk error | error resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk |
disk pack disc pack | (computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage device |
dig excavation archeological site | the site of an archeological exploration, they set up camp next to the dig |
disk space disc space | (computer science) the space available on a magnetic disk |
disk overhead overhead | (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing |
disk jockey disc jockey dj | a person who announces and plays popular recorded music |
disk disc saucer | something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate, the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky |
disk-jockey disc-jockey DJ | comment on music to be played, He has a job disk-jockeying on the weekend |
harrow disk | draw a harrow over (land) |
discoid discoidal disklike disclike disk-shaped disc-shaped | having a flat circular shape |
fiber-optic fiberoptic fibre-optic fibreoptic | of or relating to fiber optics |
ocular optic optical visual | relating to or using sight, ocular inspection, an optical illusion, visual powers, visual navigation |