Definitions for CD

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

CD

  1. certificate of deposit.

    Category: Business

  2. Civil Defense.

    Category: Government

  3. compact disc.

    Category: Hi-Fi and Audio

Cd*

  1. cadmium.

    Category: Chemistry

* Chem. Symbol..

cd

  1. candela.

    Category: Optics

  2. Also, cd. cord.

C.D.

  1. Civil Defense.

    Category: Government

Princeton's WordNet

  1. cadmium, Cd, atomic number 48(noun)

    a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores

  2. candle, candela, cd, standard candle(noun)

    the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin

  3. certificate of deposit, CD(noun)

    a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest

  4. compact disk, compact disc, CD(adj)

    a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser

  5. four hundred, 400, cd(adj)

    being one hundred more than three hundred

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. CD(noun)ˈidˈi

    a plastic computer disk that contains or records information

    a music CD

Wiktionary

  1. cD(Noun)

    a type of giant elliptical galaxy


Translations for CD

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

CD(noun)

compact disc.

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