CD-RW

American  

noun

1. a compact disc onto which data can be written multiple times.

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CD-RW British  

noun

1. compact disc rewritable; a compact disc that can be used to record and rerecord

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Etymology

Origin of CD-RW

1995–2000; C(ompact) D(isc)- R(e)W(ritable)

Example Sentences

Hammer, Manning downloaded, from the government’s Combined Information Data Network Exchange, almost every SigActs report from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and burned a compressed version of the data onto CD-RW discs, one of which was labeled “Lady Gaga.”

From New York Times

But the Travelmate P2 does allow you to spec it up with a DVD / CD-RW drive, and it has Nvidia GeForce GTX 940M graphics with outputs for up to three monitors, along with Skype for Business certification, Intel Skylake processor options, and up to 32GB of RAM.

From The Verge

Did you mean one needs to use a CD-RW or DVD-RW disc, or can one use a CD-R or DVD-R disc?

From Seattle Times

The storage of classified digital, which legendarily allowed Bradley Manning to fill a CD-RW labelled “Lady Gaga” with reams of State Department files, makes copying and distributing secrets from within a system in which hundreds of thousands of public employees and private contractors have security clearance a game of digital wack-a-mole for the folks keeping those secrets.

From Forbes

I burned the data onto a CD-RW, and took it into my CHU, and copied them onto my personal computer.

From Salon