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optical disk

optical disk is the alternative spelling of optical disc.

Meaning of optical disc

Noun

optical disc (plural optical discs)

  1. A modern data storage medium consisting of a flat disc read mechanically by illumination with laser light, including the Laserdisc, compact disc, DVD, and Blu-ray.

Forms of optical disk

pluraloptical disks

Questions about optical disk

What is optical disk the alternative spelling of?
Optical disk is the alternative spelling of optical disc.

Words near optical disk in the dictionary

  1. optical depth
  2. optical disc
  3. optical disc drive
  4. optical disc drives
  5. optical discs
  6. optical disk
  7. optical disk drive
  8. optical disk drives
  9. optical disks
  10. optical double
  11. optical doubles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: optical disk (page history and authors); optical 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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