minidisc
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MiniDisc¹
noun MiniDiscs
- A magnetooptical format for storing digital audio. This convinces me that MiniDisc is a format whose time has come and gone. When MiniDisc first came out, I was very excited at the existence of an erasable disc format for music.
- A disk that uses this format. So the recording is real time: To get an hour of music on a MiniDisc, it'll take you an hour. If you go for the MiniDisc and Voquette MiniDisc NetLink solution, you'll probably want to build a collection of MiniDiscs rather than recording music to a MiniDisc temporarily, the way you download music t
- A MiniDisc player or recorder. Jon Konrath (2003), Tell Me a Story about the Devil ― Selected Journals, 1997—1999, page 137: “It'll be nice to travel with a MiniDisc, too. A MiniDisc, a GameBoy, a camcorder, a cellphone—I think RoboCop hauled around less gear.”
minidisc²
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From mini- + disc.
noun minidiscs
- A disc/disk in MiniDisc format
- A minidisc player or recorder. Jayne K. Guberman (2005), In our own voices ― A guide to conducting life history interviews with American Jewish women, page 20: “Make sure that your minidisc has microphone inputs. Hand-held, high-quality microphones may need a preamplifier to work with a minidisc.”
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Talk about this word "minidisc." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/minidisc. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. minidisc. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/minidisc "minidisc." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/minidisc.
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@misc{minidisc_2026,
title = {minidisc},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/minidisc},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
