audio compact disc
- noun
- /ˈɔːdioʊ ˈkɒmpækt dɪsk/
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disco compacto de audio
- The audio compact disc revolutionized how we listen to music in the 1980s.
Examples
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The following two sections detail the development of the two audio compact discs developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs for use in the assessment of auditory function.
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An index of the audio compact disc Speech Recognition and Identification Materials, Disc 1.1, produced in 1991.
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Many of the problems encountered with audio tape were overcome with the development of audio compact disc technology in the mid-1980s.
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Abstract: Two audio compact discs have been developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs for use in the assessment of auditory function.
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I always listen to my favorite songs on an audio compact disc at home.
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She bought an audio compact disc of the latest album from her favorite artist.
Synonyms
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1.4
A small round disc that stores music and other digital files
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2.5
A small round shiny disc that stores music, videos, or computer files read by a laser
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2.5
A round plastic disc that stores music or spoken recordings to play in a CD player
How Portable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'audio' specifies the type of content (sound recordings) and 'compact' + 'disc' describe the small, round physical medium, so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer it is a small disc for audio. This noun-modifier combination is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern (e.g., compact disc / disco compacto / コンパクトディスク), so it will be immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Audio compact disc comes from three simple words: audio means 'sound', compact means 'small', and disc is a flat round plate. Engineers made a small shiny disc to hold music, so the name came to mean 'a small round disc for storing and playing sound recordings'.