disc space
(US disk space)
noun
1 Medicine the space between adjacent vertebral bodies (normally occupied by an intervertebral disc), especially as seen on a radiograph of the spine.
2 Computing (usually in form disk space) room on a disk for the storage of data.
Origin
1920s.
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