optical disc
(US optical disk)
noun
A disc (such as a CD-ROM) on which data is stored or recorded using light, providing increased durability and capacity compared with a magnetic disk.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Science.
- be like getting blood out of (or from) a stone (also turnip)
- be like Piccadilly Circus
- be (like) putty in someone's hands
- belimb
- belime
- Belisha beacon
- belitter
- belittle
- belittlement
- belittler
- belittlingly
- Belitung
- be (living) on borrowed time
- Belizan
- Belize
- Belizean
- Belize City
- Belizian
- Bell
- Bella Coola
- Bellacoola
- belladonna
- belladonna lily
- Bell, Alexander Graham
- bellbird