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DISK-SHAPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disk-shaped mean?
• DISK-SHAPED (adjective)
The adjective DISK-SHAPED has 1 sense:
1. having a flat circular shape
Familiarity information: DISK-SHAPED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a flat circular shape
Synonyms:
disc-shaped; disclike; discoid; discoidal; disk-shaped; disklike
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Context examples
A disk-shaped valve component of a tilting disk mechanical heart valve.
(Leaflet Disk Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
The team made disk-shaped, micrometer-sized silicon particles to serve as a carrier for the pDox.
(Injectable nanoparticles deliver cancer therapy in mice, NIH)
Astronomers from the Dark Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark discovered the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.
(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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