disk
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A total solar eclipse means the Moon's disk will completely cover the Sun - and it is expected to last for six minutes and 23 seconds, the longest on land since 1991.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
"It's quite significant. It's not the greatest prize, a total eclipse, but it is a partial eclipse of almost nine-tenths of the sun's disk," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
This inner gap likely helped capture and preserve Io, Europa, and Ganymede as they moved through the disk.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Its speed, location, and alignment with the debris disk all matched what scientists would expect from a planet orbiting Beta Pictoris.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
I always did a good day’s work, didn’t cause no trouble, and there was always a disk waiting for him.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
It had four kilobytes of memory, a black-and-white monitor and used floppy disks that truly flopped when you shook them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The simulations indicate that the contrasting moon systems of Jupiter and Saturn may have emerged from differences in the structures of their circumplanetary disks.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Accretion disks are among the most energetic environments in the universe.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
Astrolabes are metallic disks with multi-layered, interlocking components that were historically used to tell the time, map the stars, the direction of Mecca and the motion of the sky.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
The tambourine shook and its metal disks rang out.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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