optical disc vs compact disk

optical disc and compact disk both are nouns.

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

As nouns, compact disk is a hyponym of optical disc; that is, compact disk 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 disk: 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 disc, DVD, videodisc, videodisk.

optical disc (noun)	compact disk (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 disk

optical disc and compact disk both are nouns.

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