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CD-ROM
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cd-rom
English
Alternative forms
en CD ROM
Pronunciation
en /siː.diːˈɹɒm/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-CD-ROM.wav US
Noun
compact disk - read only memory: an optical disc containing data that can be read (but not changed) by a computer
Translations
CD-ROM
Arabic: ar
Azerbaijani: az CD-ROM
Danish: da
Dutch: nl cd-rom m
Esperanto: eo KD-NLM, eo codoromo
Finnish: fi CD-ROM-levy, fi CD-ROM
French: fr cédérom m, fr CD-ROM
German: de CD-ROM f
Greek: as in English
Hindi: hi
Italian: it CD-ROM m
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko 시디롬
Polish: pl CD-ROM m
Portuguese: pt CD-ROM m
Romanian: ro CD-ROM
Russian: ru CD-ROM
Spanish: es cederrón m
Swedish: sv CD-ROM c
Thai: th ซีดีรอม, th ซีดี-รอม
Xibe: sjo ᠰᡟᡞ ᡩᡞ - ᠠᠯ ᠣᡠ ᠠᡞᠮ syi di - al oo aim
See also
Anagrams
en cdmor Comdr.
Azerbaijani
Noun
o c
en CD-ROM
Declension
o c
Chinese
Etymology
From yue en CD-ROM, in reference to the fact both are read-only.
Pronunciation
yue /siː⁵⁵ tiː⁵⁵ ɹɔːm⁵⁵/
Noun
zh nounyue nouns lemmas
zh HKC Internet slang lurker
Usage notes
Sometimes explained as en Copy, Download, Read-Only Member. It is unclear whether this is a backronym or not.
zh terms written in foreign scripts
Finnish
Etymology
fi en CD-ROM
Pronunciation
see-dee-rom(i) CD-ROM
Noun
CD-ROM
Declension
CD-ROM a 0
Derived terms
fi compounds CD-ROM-asema CD-ROM-levy CD-ROM-peli
Further reading
2023-07-02
fi initialisms
Italian
Etymology
it :bor en:CD-ROM
it en CD-ROM.
Pronunciation
it LL-Q652 (ita)-DanielParoliere-CD-ROM.wav
Noun
it noun m initialisms
CD-ROM
Japanese
ja:
Etymology
From ja en CD-ROM しいでぃいろむ.
Pronunciation
シーディー ロム 5
Noun
C%D%-%ROM シー%ディー%-%ロム
ja computing しいでぃいろむ en CD-ROM
See also
C%D シー%ディー
ROM ロム
D%V%D-ROM ディー%ブイ%ディー-ロム
ja terms written in foreign scripts