Disc vs. Disk


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from dictionary.com:

disk also disc

n.

1. A thin, flat, circular object or plate.

2. Something resembling such an object: The moon's disk was reflected in the pond.

3.

1. The disk used in a disc brake.

2. A disk used on a disk harrow.

4. A round, flattened, platelike structure in an animal, such as an intervertebral disk.

5. Botany. The enlarged area bearing numerous tiny flowers, as in the flower head of composite plants, such as the daisy. Also called discus.

6. Computer Science.

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

2. The data stored on such a disk: read the disk that came with the manual.

7. An optical disk, especially a compact disk. See Usage Note at compact disk.

8. A phonograph record.

9. A circular grid in a phototypesetting machine.

tr.v. disked, also disced disk?ing, disc?ing disks, discs

1. To work (soil) with a disk harrow.

2. To make (a recording) on a phonograph record.

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I personally would say/write: Floppy/Hard Disk but Compact/Digital Versatile Disc.

I'm the same too. Yeah, I agree with you. But I wonder why and how the "c" changed to a "k" on Hard and Floppy Disk. Is there a special reason, I wonder that's all.

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Well, CD was always written Compact Disc and Floppies were always Floppy Disks, as printed by their manufacturers. I think that's how the magnetic = disk and optical = disc divide came about. Plus, in that era when both CDs and floppies were popular, you needed someway to tell them apart.

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