cd-rom drive

1. 1.

   a drive that is connected to a computer and on which a CD-ROM can be `played'

   Broaderdrive

Questions about cd-rom drive

What does cd-rom drive mean?

cd-rom drive means "a drive that is connected to a computer and on which a CD-ROM can be `played'".

Is cd-rom drive a common word?

cd-rom drive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.