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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plastic-coated disk on which data, such as text, music, or video, is digitally stored as microscopic regions of varying reflectivity and is read by scanning the surface with a laser.
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- noun A modern data storage medium consisting of a flat disc read mechanically by illumination with laser light. Various formats include the
Laserdisc ,compact disc ,DVD , andBlu-ray .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
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