CD-R

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  CD-R \CD-R\ n. [from Compact Disk-Recordable.]
     a recordable compact disk; a compact disc on which you can
     write only once and thereafter is read-only.
  
     Syn: compact disc recordable, CD-WO, compact disc write-once.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  CD-R
       n : a compact disc on which you can write only once and
           thereafter is read-only memory [syn: {compact disc
           recordable}, {CD-WO}, {compact disc write-once}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  CDR
       Compact Disk - Recordable (CD), "CD-R"
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  cdr /ku'dr/ or /kuh'dr/ vt. [from LISP] To skip past the first item
     from a list of things (generalized from the LISP operation on binary
     tree structures, which returns a list consisting of all but the first
     element of its argument). In the form `cdr down', to trace down a list
     of elements: "Shall we cdr down the agenda?" Usage: silly. See also
     {loop through}.
  
     Historical note: The instruction format of the IBM 704 that hosted the
     original LISP implementation featured two 15-bit fields called the
     `address' and `decrement' parts. The term `cdr' was originally `Contents
     of Decrement part of Register'. Similarly, `car' stood for `Contents of
     Address part of Register'.
  
     The cdr and car operations have since become bases for formation of
     compound metaphors in non-LISP contexts. GLS recalls, for example, a
     programming project in which strings were represented as linked lists;
     the get-character and skip-character operations were of course called
     CHAR and CHDR.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  cdr
       
          /ku'dr/ or /kuh'dr/ [LISP] To skip past the first item from a
          list of things (generalised from the LISP operation on binary
          tree structures, which returns a list consisting of all but
          the first element of its argument).  In the form "cdr down",
          to trace down a list of elements: "Shall we cdr down the
          agenda?"  Usage: silly.  See also {loop through}.
       
          Historical note: The instruction format of the IBM 7090 that
          hosted the original LISP implementation featured two 15 bit
          fields called the "address" and "decrement" parts.  The term
          "cdr" was originally "Contents of Decrement part of Register".
          Similarly, "car" stood for "Contents of Address part of
          Register".
       
          The cdr and car operations have since become bases for
          formation of compound metaphors in non-LISP contexts.  {GLS}
          recalls, for example, a programming project in which strings
          were represented as linked lists; the get-character and
          skip-character operations were of course called CHAR and CHDR.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (2001-06-22)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  CD-R
       
          {Compact Disc Recordable}