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compact disc player

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noun

  1. a machine for playing compact discs

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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According to IIT’s mathematical definition of information, Aaronson pointed out, a compact disc player running error-correction codes can be far more conscious than a human being.

From Scientific American Jun. 26, 2023

In 1979, technology firm Philips demonstrated a prototype compact disc player during a press conference in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

From Washington Times Mar. 8, 2021

I can go on, the CD player, the compact disc player was introduced at CES in 1981, and I can't believe that compact discs hit widespread adoption until much later, like mid to late '80s.

From The Verge Jan. 5, 2016

In 1981, the compact disc player had its debut there.

From New York Times Jan. 13, 2014

That faith was shaken last week by a report that a DC-10 coming into New York's Kennedy airport recently almost crashed when a passenger in first class turned on his portable compact disc player.

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