optical disc vs compact disc

optical disc and compact disc both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
optical disc	Yes	No	No	No
compact disc	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, compact disc is a hyponym of optical disc; that is, compact disc is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than optical disc:

optical disc: a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface; is read with a laser that scans the surface
compact disc: a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser

Other hyponyms of optical disc include CD, compact disk, DVD, videodisc, videodisk.

optical disc (noun)	compact disc (noun)
a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface; is read with a laser that scans the surface	a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser

optical disc vs compact disc

optical disc and compact disc both are nouns.

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