Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation compact disk–rewritable
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- noun Initialism of
Compact Disk - ReadWritable . A form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from a plastic disc. It can be written to multiple times.
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Examples
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CD-R and CD-RW are dirt cheap, as are the players and recorders.
Copyright Law and Utilitarianism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And do you think it might help to try burning all of the problem files to a CD-RW, then re-ripping them to .
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We have a CD-RW that suddenly just started acting blank.
Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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With which of these things can you add more data once you have already saved data to it? a. CD-RW disc
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I have a Mac G3, and I added extenders to the bottom "handles" which gives me the room to put my CD-RW drive in a firewire enclosure underneath the computer.
DIY Pipe Laptop And Electronics Stands | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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DVD/CD Drive: The dual-layer DVD drive is compatible with a wide range of formats, including both DVD+RW and DVD-RW discs, CD-RW discs, and dual-layer (DL) DVD+/- R discs, which can hold up to 8.5 GB of data – great for backing up your MP3 collection or your most important documents.
Midnight Sideshow | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like 'Lady Gaga' ... erase the music ... then write a compressed split file.
WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables: New Documents Released The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like 'Lady Gaga' ... erase the music ... then write a compressed split file.
WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables: New Documents Released Alexander Belenky 2010
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I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like 'Lady Gaga' ... erase the music ... then write a compressed split file.
WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables: New Documents Released The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Powered by the ultra low power consumption Intel Core Duo 1. 73GHz processor, 512MB DDR RAM, 60GB Shock-mounted Hard Drive, and a CD-RW/DVD+RW (DVD Dual) Drive, this rugged portable is designed to give you reliability in environments where conventional laptops would fail.
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