compact disc

NOUN

recording of music or speech

Synonyms

STRONGEST

album disk

WEAK

CD cut cylinder demo digital recording laser disk record release track

Example Sentences

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June, now 63, said her home office at the time had a dial-up modem, trading software downloaded from a compact disc and a dodgy internet connection.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

According to IIT’s mathematical definition of information, Aaronson pointed out, a compact disc player running error-correction codes can be far more conscious than a human being.

From Scientific American • Jun. 26, 2023

“Mother’s Milk” had gone gold, radio was playing the Peppers’ cover of “Higher Ground” and the record industry was awash in compact disc profits.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2021

Figure 27.1 The colors reflected by this compact disc vary with angle and are not caused by pigments.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

P. more compact, disc black then grey, edge white.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George