"optical disc" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: optical discs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: en:optical disc Categories (topical): Computer hardware Related terms: optic disc Translations (data storage medium): опти́чен диск (optíčen disk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 光碟 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 光碟 (alt: gwong¹ dip⁶⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 碟片 (diépiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 光盤 (Chinese Mandarin), 光盘 (guāngpán) [Mainland-China] (Chinese Mandarin), 光碟 (guāngdié) [Taiwan] (Chinese Mandarin), lumdisko (Esperanto), optinen levy (Finnish), disque optique [feminine] (French), ოპტიკური დისკი (oṗṭiḳuri disḳi) (Georgian), οπτικός δίσκος (optikós dískos) [masculine] (Greek), 光碟 (kông-thia̍p) (Hakka Chinese), disc optic [neuter] (Romanian), disco óptico [masculine] (Spanish), đĩa quang (Vietnamese)

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