AUDIO CD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does audio CD mean? 

• AUDIO CD (noun)
  The noun AUDIO CD has 1 sense:

1. compact discs used to reproduce sound (voice and music)

  Familiarity information: AUDIO CD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUDIO CD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compact discs used to reproduce sound (voice and music)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

audio CD; audio compact disc

Hypernyms ("audio CD" is a kind of...):

CD; compact disc; compact disk (a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

 Context examples 

An optical disk that is physically the same as an audio CD, but contains multimedia information (images, sound, etc.) The user can interact with films, games and educational programs.

(Compact Disc-Interactive, NCI Thesaurus)