optical disc

1. 1.

   a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface; is read with a laser that scans the surface

   Synonymsoptical disk

   Broadermemory device

   Narrowercompact diskvideodisk

Questions about optical disc

What does optical disc mean?

optical disc means "a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface; is read with a laser that scans the surface".

What is another word for optical disc?

Close synonyms include optical disk. 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 optical disc a common word?

optical 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.