Definitions

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  • noun uncountable, trademark A magnetooptical format for storing digital audio.
  • noun countable A disk that uses this format.
  • noun countable A MiniDisc player or recorder.

Etymologies

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mini- +‎ disc

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Examples

  • There were rumors of Philips and Matsushita developing a new Digital Compact Cassette DCC, but Sony's management gambled that their new MiniDisc system, with its optical disc-based random access design, would prevail in a future format war.

    David Julian Price: The Making of MiniDisc David Julian Price 2011

  • Still, compared to DCC portables, the format seemed more practical, and the full size machines were in another league; it took seconds to skip from track 1 to track 10 on a MiniDisc, whereas it was minutes with the DCC.

    David Julian Price: The Making of MiniDisc David Julian Price 2011

  • MiniDisc was surely the last hurrah of Sony's heroic age -- when the dynamism of its founder Akio Morita ruled the consumer electronics world.

    David Julian Price: The Making of MiniDisc David Julian Price 2011

  • As the last surviving product from Sony's belle époque, MiniDisc is a reminder of better times, so it's all the sadder to see it gone.

    David Julian Price: The Making of MiniDisc David Julian Price 2011

  • As the last surviving product from Sony's belle époque, MiniDisc is a reminder of better times, so it's all the sadder to see it gone.

    David Julian Price: The Making of MiniDisc David Julian Price 2011

  • MiniDisc was surely the last hurrah of Sony's heroic age -- when the dynamism of its founder Akio Morita ruled the consumer electronics world.

    David Julian Price: The Making of MiniDisc David Julian Price 2011

  • Factor in a vast supply of free music albeit illegal! from Napster in the early part of the last decade and it was curtains for MiniDisc.

    David Julian Price: The Making of MiniDisc David Julian Price 2011

  • The Walkman eventually begat its CD successor the Discman, and then ever-more-compact DAT and MiniDisc models.

    Sony ejects the Walkman (the tape kind, that is) Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • Factor in a vast supply of free music albeit illegal! from Napster in the early part of the last decade and it was curtains for MiniDisc.

    David Julian Price: The Making of MiniDisc David Julian Price 2011

  • There were rumors of Philips and Matsushita developing a new Digital Compact Cassette DCC, but Sony's management gambled that their new MiniDisc system, with its optical disc-based random access design, would prevail in a future format war.

    David Julian Price: The Making of MiniDisc David Julian Price 2011

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