Associations to the word «Cd»

Wiktionary

CD, symbol. The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Democratic Republic of the Congo.
CD, noun. Compact disc; a form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from a plastic disc in a reader device.
CD, noun. Certificate of deposit (from a financial institutions).
CD, noun. Creative director: head of the creative department (for example of an advertising agency).
CD, noun. Corporate design: specific design features of a company, corporate identity CI. (Can we clean up([1]) this sense?)
CD, noun. Collision detection (used by an Ethernet network to detect when two computers are sending frames at the same time, and also to deal with such collisions when they happen).
CD, noun. Circular dichroism.
CD, noun. Chart datum
CD, verb. To cross-dress.
CD, symbol. (element symbol) Symbol for cadmium.
CD, symbol. (physics) The drag coefficient (Cd or Cx) describes a characteristic amount of aerodynamic drag caused by fluid flow.
CD, symbol. (metrology) Symbol for the candela, an SI unit of luminous intensity.
CD, noun. (astronomy) a type of giant elliptical galaxy
CD BURNER, noun. A device for recording audio, or for saving data, onto a compact disc
CD BURNERS, noun. Plural of CD burner
CD KEY, noun. A serial key of a program to be installed from a CD.
CD KEYS, noun. Plural of CD key
CD PLAYER, noun. (computer hardware) An electronic device that plays compact discs.
CD PLAYERS, noun. Plural of CD player

Dictionary definition

CD, noun. A soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores.
CD, 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.
CD, noun. A debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest.
CD, noun. A digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser.
CD, adjective. Being one hundred more than three hundred.

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