optical disc

English

An optical disc.

Noun

optical disc (plural optical discs)

1. (computer hardware) 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.

Related terms

• optic disc

Translations

data storage medium

• Bulgarian: опти́чен диск m (optíčen disk)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 光碟 (gwong¹ dip^6-2)

  Hakka: 光碟 (kông-thia̍p)

  Hokkien: 光碟 (zh-min-nan) (kong-tia̍p)

  Mandarin: 碟片 (zh) (diépiàn), 光盤 / 光盘 (zh) (guāngpán) (mainland China), 光碟 (zh) (guāngdié) (Taiwan)

• Esperanto: lumdisko
• Finnish: optinen levy (fi)
• French: disque optique (fr) f
• Georgian: ოპტიკური დისკი (oṗṭiḳuri disḳi)
• Greek: οπτικός δίσκος m (optikós dískos)
• Italian: disco ottico m
• Romanian: disc optic n
• Spanish: disco óptico m
• Vietnamese: đĩa quang

Further reading

• optical disc on Wikipedia.Wikipedia