CD

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Compact disc or compact disk

• A 4 3/4" diameter device which can be read by a laser beam.^[1]

• A removable optical disk that can be used to store documents or other data. CDs are available that can be both read and written using widely available CD “burners.” It is common to transfer large amounts of data from one computer to another using CDs.

See also

• CD
• CD-R
• CD-ROM
• CD-RW
• Disc
• Diskette
• Disk
• DVD
• DVD-ROM
• Floppy disk
• Hard disk
• Hard drive
• Jaz disk
• Magnetic disk
• Magnetic storage media
• Media
• Optical disk
• Storage media
• WORM disk
• Zip disk

Footnotes

1. ^  American Document Management, Glossary of Terms, http://www.amdoc.com/glossary.shtml.