compact disc

1. 1.

   a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser

   Synonymscompact diskCD

   Broaderoptical diskrecording

   Narroweraudio CDCD-RCD-ROM

Questions about compact disc

What does compact disc mean?

compact disc means "a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser".

What is another word for compact disc?

Close synonyms include compact disk, CD. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compact disc a common word?

compact disc 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.