DISKS Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

disks

noun

variants or discs

plural of disk

as in fragments

Related Words

Relevance

Dissimilar Words

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Recent Examples of disks Braking comes courtesy of dual 310-mm floating front discs paired with radial ByBre calipers, along with a 270-mm rear disc and single-piston hydraulic caliper. — Utkarsh Sood june 16, New Atlas, 16 June 2026 Researchers placed the masses on flat platelike objects called torsion disks, with the lighter masses on the inside suspended by a thin copper beryllium strip and the heavier masses located on a separate disk on the outside. — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for disks

Noun

The star is 2,160,000 ppb of low-molecular-weight collagen—in other words, smaller collagen fragments that help draw moisture to skin for a plumper, firmer look.

— Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 7 Oct. 2026
This test, as well as others like it, can detect tiny fragments of free-floating DNA in the blood.

— H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of fragments

Noun

And, as is the case in other parts of Europe, the real estate market in Hungary is cyclical.

— Lucy Handley, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
To add to the dire situation, up to 80% of large parts of the city’s groundwater is contaminated, both by sewage and by naturally occurring substances such as arsenic.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of parts

Noun

With both Better Homes & Gardens and Woman & Home publishing explainers, the term is primed to migrate into big-box home sections, subscription boxes and gift guides over the next holiday cycle.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2026
The team broke down Mario’s possible path through a level into individual sections, each corresponding to a calculation instruction of the counting machine.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of sections

Noun

This year, lingering warmth could disrupt or shorten the fall foliage window for large portions of the country.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
Tishman’s people have spent the past few years sprucing up Rockefeller Center — the oldest portions of which are comparable in age to the Chrysler Building, though they’ve been better maintained — and trying to make its retail spaces more of a draw.

— Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of portions

Noun

Neutrinos bump into other particles only rarely, so scientists build large detectors to improve their odds of catching collisions.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
Relativistic means travelling at speeds near that of light, with the blazar's central supermassive black hole as the engine that accelerated these particles.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of particles

Noun

In fact, they aren’t made of glass at all; they’re made of polycarbonate, a plastic material that mimics the look of a wonky funhouse reflector, to prevent people from shattering the surface and using broken shards as weapons.

— Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 8 Oct. 2026
Students sitting with arms linked at the elbows could only see in shards through a picket of shin guards, restricting their view of the area where classmates and roommates were dragged one by one and zip-tied face down on the spring grass.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of shards

Noun

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into the buildout, and not just into AI labs and models, but data centers, semiconductor chips, and so on.

— Yerbol Orynbayev, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2026
After initially struggling to build a market for the technology, the company continued developing HBM and eventually became the leading supplier of the memory chips used by NVIDIA (NVDA) in its AI accelerators.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of chips

Browse Nearby Words

disklike

disks

dislikable

See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

Style

“Disks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disks. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

Copy Citation

Synonyms of disks

noun

Example Sentences

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Luddite

Popular in Grammar & Usage

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

The Exceptions of '-s' and '-es' Plurals

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

Is it 'nerve-racking' or 'nerve-wracking'?

What's the difference between 'fascism' and 'socialism'?

Popular in Wordplay

The Real Origin of 'Supercalifragilistic'

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

7 Words for Bad Endings and Rough Situations

The Words of the Week - Oct. 9

Even More Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)

Popular

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

The Real Origin of 'Supercalifragilistic'

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Games & Quizzes