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a circle that learned to spin, and somehow stored your whole world on it
means A flat, round, thin object — and especially one used to store data, music, or video, like a CD or hard disk platter.
from From Latin 'discus' (a flat round plate or quoit), itself borrowed from Greek 'diskos,' the throwing-disc of ancient athletes. That same word fanned out into a family: 'disc,' 'disk,' 'dish,' and even 'dais' all trace back to it. The 'disc' spelling stayed closer to its Latin look, while 'disk' got reshaped — and by long convention 'disk' tends to win for computer storage while 'disc' claims the optical world of CDs and DVDs.
- data laser
- CDs read by lasers tracing microscopic pits in spirals
- spine science
- spinal discs cushion bones and shrink slightly over each day
- flying frisbees
- the Frisbee began as empty Frisbie Pie Company tins
- galactic shape
- our Milky Way is a flat disc of stars
discus throw olympic event — track and field competition at every summer olympics since ancient greece, modern since 1896
compact disc — digital storage format introduced by philips and sony in 1982, sold billions of units