videodisk

/ ˈvɪdɪəʊˌdɪsk /

noun

1. another name for optical disc

Example Sentences

Today 2.7 million computers have been installed in the nation's 100,000 schools -- roughly 1 for every 16 students -- along with an avalanche of disk drives, modems, laser printers and videodisk players.

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The company made a videodisk player for watching movies that had been prerecorded on disks.

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Like the videodisk and compact audio disk, the laser card, which was developed by Drexler Technology Corp. of Mountain View, Calif., depends on laser optic technology, in which a low-power laser beam is used both to burn digital information onto the card and to "read" that information by scanning the surface.

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It is as if the United Nations had launched a videodisk containing snippets from every Hollywood genre, which had then been synthesized by an alien culture with a gift for sweet-souled comedy and an eye for the bottom line.

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The move to beef up the CBS publishing division follows the company's recent decision to shut down such video ventures as a cultural cable network, a videodisk operation and a direct satellite broadcast operation that suffered estimated aggregate losses of $100 million over three years.

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