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compact disk

compact disk is the alternative form of compact disc.

Meaning of compact disc

Noun

compact disc (plural compact discs)

  1. A kind of plastic optical disc used to store audio or digital data, read by a laser in a drive.
    Synonyms:
    CD

Forms of compact disk

pluralcompact disks

Questions about compact disk

What is compact disk the alternative form of?
Compact disk is the alternative form of compact disc.

Words near compact disk in the dictionary

  1. compact cassettes
  2. compact disc
  3. compact disc drive
  4. compact disc drives
  5. compact discs
  6. compact disk
  7. compact disks
  8. compact executive car
  9. compact executive cars
  10. compact fluorescent lamp
  11. compact fluorescent lamps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: compact disk (page history and authors); compact disc (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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