compact disc

noun

com·​pact disc ˈkäm-ˌpakt- How to pronounce compact disc (audio)

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Because the compact disc used a very different production process, Sony suddenly found itself with a surplus of equipment for manufacturing magnetic recording tape and of technicians to run these machines. Ashok Lahiri, IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2017 For the first 100 years, from that Paris Opera telephone experiment to the release of the compact disc in the early 1980s, recording was an uneven but inexorable march toward higher quality—as both a selling point and an artistic aim. Michael Owen, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025 The songs were released on compact disc and cassette tape in 1994, several months after singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain died by suicide. Mark Jones, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2024 Also today, Swift dropped her 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology on compact disc and vinyl. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for compact disc

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First Known Use

1979, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of compact disc was in 1979

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“Compact disc.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compact%20disc. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.

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compact disc

noun
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