Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cd-rom

1 sense of cd-rom

Sense 1
CD-ROM, compact disc read-only memory -- (a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system); a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user)
       => compact disk, compact disc, CD -- (a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser)
       => read-only memory, ROM, read-only storage, fixed storage -- ((computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed)