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  Compact Disc - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The design of the CD was originally thought of as an evolution of the gramophone record, rather than primarily as a data storage medium.
CD data is stored as a series of tiny indentations (pits), encoded in a tightly packed spiral track of pits moulded into the top of the polycarbonate layer.
To press the CD first a Glass Master is cut using a high power laser on a device not dissimilar to a CD writer, the glass master being around 12 inches (30 cm) diameter and up to one inch (25 mm) thick as it needs to be strong for pressing.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/CD   (2815 words)

  
  Compact disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The design of the CD was originally conceived as an evolution of the gramophone record, rather than primarily as a data storage medium.
A user-recordable CD for data storage, CD-R, was introduced in the early 1990s, and it became the de facto standard for exchange and archiving of computer data and music.
Most CD manufacturers, dependent on the exact pit geometry such as the slope of the pit edges etc, choose a pit depth of around 90-100 nm, (which is around λ/6n) yielding a sound trade-off between the quality of the push-pull radial tracking and full aperture detection signal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CD   (5036 words)

  
 Compact disc - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
CDs are available in a range of sizes but the most commonly available is 120mm (about 5 inches) in diameter.
A CD is read by shining light from a 780nm wavelength semiconductor laser through the bottom of the polycarbonate layer, and monitoring the light reflected by the aluminium coating.
The term EP is used for both a CD and a vinyl record of intermediate play-time.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /c/co/compact_disc.html   (1074 words)

  
 Compact disc : QuicklyFind Info
CDs are available in a range of sizes but the most commonly available is 120mm (about 5 inches) in diameter.
A CD is read by shining light from a 780nm wavelength semiconductor laser through the bottom of the polycarbonate layer, and monitoring the light reflected by the aluminium coating.
The term EP is used for both a CD and a vinyl record of intermediate play-time.
www.quicklyfind.com /info/Compact_disc.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Compact Disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The design of the CD was originally conceived as an evolution of the gramophone record, rather than primarily as a data storage medium.
Most CD manufacturers, dependent on the exact pit geometry such as the slope of the pit edges etc, choose a pit depth of around 90-100 nm, (which is around λ/6n) yielding a sound trade-off between the quality of the push-pull radial tracking and full aperture detection signal.
Replicated CDs are mass-produced using a hydraulic injection mold, where a glass master disc is created and used to make "stampers." Small granules of raw plastic are fed into the barrel while under heat and increasing amount of pressure melt the plastic and force the liquified material into the mold cavity.
www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/CD   (2716 words)

  
 Compact disc - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Each such "miniCD" or "Maxi CD" can hold 21 minutes of music, or 180 MB of data (this form factor has also been called "CD3", since it is about three inches across).
A CD is read by focusing a 780 nm wavelength semiconductor laser through the bottom of the polycarbonate layer.
The 74-minute playing time of a CD, being more than that of most long-playing vinyl albums, was often used to the format's advantage during the early years when CDs and LPs vied for commerical sales.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Compact_disc   (4728 words)

  
 Compact Disc Summary
By the end of the century, CD players that could hold several CDs at a time were installed in automobiles and people could carry personal CD players to listen to their favorite music with headphones while exercising.
A CD is read by focusing a 780 nm wavelength semiconductor laser through the bottom of the polycarbonate layer.
If CD ripper software were to subsequently access the music tracks on the CD, XCP would substitute white noise for the audio on the disc.
www.bookrags.com /Compact_Disc   (4320 words)

  
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The information on a standard CD is encoded as a spiral track of pits moulded into the top of the polycarbonate layer (The areas between pits are known as lands).
The difference in height between pits and lands is one quarter of the wavelength of the laser light, leading to a half-wavelength phase difference between the light reflected from a pit and from its surrounding land.
Many CDs, especially classical music, but also many popular recordings (especially on early CDs), come with a three letter code printed on the back, where "A" stands for analog and "D" stands for digital.
www.kisanji.org /?modulo=wikipedia&arg=CD   (3645 words)

  
 CD | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
.cd is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It was created in 1997 as a replacement for the.zr (Zaire) ccTLD, which was phased out and eventually deleted in 2001.Except for reserved names like.com.cd,.net.cd,.org.cd and others, any person in the world can register a.cd domain for a fee, much of the income from which goes to the government and people of the country.
CD, compact disc, 4.75 inch plastic disc containing digital data, small disk used for storing computerized information, optical disc which is read by a laser
www.babylon.com /definition/CD/English   (500 words)

  
 CD (disambiguation) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about CD (disambiguation)
In physics, symbol for candela, the SI unit of luminous intensity.
CD (Compact Disc) Headquarters (music membership club; BMG Music Club)
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /CD+(disambiguation)   (103 words)

  
 Compact disc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
CDs are available in a range of sizes but the most commonly available is 120mm (about 5 inch es) in diameter.
Yet another version of the CD has a mini-CD trimmed down to fit in with business card s.
In broad terms the format is a two-channel (left and right, for stereo) 16-bit PCM encoding at a 44.1 kHz sampling rate.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Compact_disc.html   (1333 words)

  
 CD, Compact Disc and Music Information Portal - CDsnooper.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
compact disk: A form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from a plastic disc in a reader device known as a CD drive.
It comes in several varieties including the CD-ROM (ROM=read-only memory) which cannot be written to except during manufacturing, the CD-R (recordable), which can be written to exactly once, and the CD-RW (re-writable), which can be written to as many times as one wishes (to a limit).
The CD, available on the market in late 1982, remains the standard physical medium for commercial audio recordings as of 2007.
www.cdsnooper.com   (429 words)

  
 Self Abuse Records Catalog
This is a large size book, collecting the Journal of write Joel Leick (in French) and comes with a CD featuring two tracks of Joel Leick reading from the Journal, with additional sound, and audio manipulations by Eric La Casa, as well as a 15 minute solo piece by La Casa.
The CD conveys the sense of struggling through the shadows of an inescapable nightmare -- abstract, oppressive, suffocating...
‘Disambiguation’ is the third CD from the duo of Zbigniew Karkowski and Kaspar T. Toeplitz.
www.selfabuserecords.net /catalog/cat-l.html   (2301 words)

  
 cd - OneLook Dictionary Search
CD, Cd,.cd, cd, cd : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include cd: cd rom, cd r, cd i, cd rom xa, audio cd, more...
Words similar to cd: cadmium, candela, candle, atomic number 48, certificate of deposit, compact disc, compact disk, standard candle, more...
www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=cd   (570 words)

  
 Jahrbuch-CD der MPG 2003 - Working memory and lexical ambi
Participants with high and low WM span were presented with sentences containing a homonym followed three words later by a nominal disambiguation cue and a final disambiguation using a verb.
At the position of the disambiguation cue, inhibitory or activational WM mechanisms predict contrasting results.
In high-span subjects, the dominant disambiguation cue elicited a smaller N400 than the subordinate one, indicating that for these subjects particularly the dominant meaning is active.
www.mpg.de /forschungsergebnisse/wissVeroeffentlichungen/archivListenJahrbuch/2003/15/publZIM50.html   (326 words)

  
 B552 Homework 2: Knowledge-based natural language processing
Unfilled slots in the CD representations can either be left in (to make the missing information more obvious) or omitted for convenience (CD-based programs would always know they're unfilled, though).
CD, McELI and conceptual analysis are described in detail in Inside Computer Understanding (Schank and Riesbeck, 1981), on reserve at Swain library.
Remember the basic procedure in the code: when certain words are encountered in a sentence, they are replaced with CD forms which contain slots represented by variables.
www.cs.indiana.edu /classes/b552-leak/hw2.html   (1042 words)

  
 CD - Linux Gamer Guide - StrangeGamer.com
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
If an article link referred you to this title, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
cd or CD can mean one of the following...
linux.strangegamer.com /index.php?title=CD   (83 words)

  
 Mailorder
Third CD by the project of those two great musicians., Solid and very heavy blocks of sound, file under electronic noise.
CD version of the beautifully designed picture disc with some luminous sounds - brings back memories of Werkbund.
This CD includes four tracks from the LP that was released in 1991 oin Tiechens' label Hamburger Musikgesellschaft, the other material also stems from the 1980ies.
www.geraeuschwelten.de /mailorder/cat_order.htm   (4910 words)

  
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A compact disc (or CD) is an used for storing digital data.
CD players can be found in home stereo systems, car audio systems and personal computers Some equipment that can play CDs can play other formats as well, such as DVD, CD-ROMs with audio files on them, and.
A CD ripper, CD grabber or CD extractor is a piece of software which is tailored to extract raw digital audio from compact discs CDDA compression WAV or FLAC, or even as raw PCM MP3 or Vorbis, although many modern rippers can bypass that stage and are capable of encoding to on the fly.
www.en-cyclopedia.com /index1/cd   (772 words)

  
 New Releases 5/10/2002
The second of this two cd set has some of Munoz' most haunting, sad and beautiful music of his vast catalogue of some twenty inspired releases.
His last CD on Mego 'Endless Summer' was highly acclaimed, but currently has no US distribution, although we might just have a copy around here.
This long (71 plus minutes) cd is the only recorded evidence of this rich and diverse period and features three ensembles from 1977, 1978 & 1980.
www.dtmgallery.com /Main/news/pre66.htm   (12003 words)

  
 Cd
I also object to CD (disambiguation) being used as the disambig page for CD.
CD is far to common a set of initials to be
The name '''CD''' comes from ''Chalmers Datorförening'' (Chalmers Computer Society), which most of the developers were members of.
www.gateserver.net /Topicsbycategory.aspx?catid=84&name=   (1187 words)

  
 Soleilmoon-Updates Detail
The album begins with some obscure and enigmatic atmospheres transitioning into more open/light tracks: looped sounds of the played cords of the zither, tubes, treated field recordings and small sounds of shells and bells add layers to the electronic magma.
This CD contains two pieces, 'Animistic (for Donatella)' concentrating on mixing location recordings with 'played' objects to obtain a complex soundscape in three parts that is inspired by the idea of an animist understanding of nature.
DOROBO 07705 Verhagen, Darrin Black Frost CD 14.99 Bordered by lowercase, delicate electroacoustic, sinecore and glitch terrain, "fl frost" presents material considered, precise yet modest in tone.minimal, delicate upper-frequency experimental.
www.soleilmoon.com /store/updatesdetail.lasso?update=32912   (2146 words)

  
 İleri Seviye | ileri seviye bilgi paylaşımı
The CD is based on Morphix that is based on famous Knoppix which, in turn, is based on Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
The documentation is the most important guide for this CD and even though I think its structure is clear and concise I'm sure there's room for improvement.
Giving hints about running every software is a nice idea and I believe putting pointers to related documents on the CD and explaining people how to view them (or making them viewable directly in the browser) will make it one step closer to the perfect state.
ileriseviye.org /arasayfa.php?inode=morphixnlp.html   (1283 words)

  
 cd information - cd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
CD (Change Directory) is a command used to switch directories in MS-DOS...
Known by its abbreviation, CD, a compact disc is a polycarbonate with one or more metal layers capable...
CD BABY: the best independent music from the cutest little record store on the web.
www.musecd.info   (849 words)

  
 Metamkine
CD présenté dans un boitier DVD avec de nombreuses photos.
Le troisième CD du duo de Zbigniew Karkowski et de Kasper T. Toeplitz.
Sur le CD 'Verstreutes 2', des pièces réalisées entre 1984 et 1995 et sorties sur des compilations cassette et CD.
www.metamkine.com /?monlabelrec=652   (409 words)

  
 New Releases 4/26/2002
This is the second excellent release for this fabulous quartet, both this newer one and the previous one ('motion poetry') sell for (cd only) CD $14.
2) (Wiggle Biscuit 005) This Beefheart/H. Cow influenced CD features Scott Amendola, Klaus Fluoride, Elliott Humberto Kavee, Gino Robair, etc. Myles is one of the stranger guitarists to emerge from the Bay Area and is a member of the Splatter Trio.
He Loves to process his guitar as do all the musicians on this CD making it hard to tell who's doing what.
www.dtmgallery.com /Main/news/20020426.htm   (4097 words)

  
 August 2003
THUNDER REMINDED ME Clean Feed CF009 CD Hailing originally from Atlanta GA, altoist / clarinettist Charles Waters and drummer Andrew Barker are now well settled in Brooklyn and have integrated themselves into that thriving jazz community curated (amongst others) by indefatigable bassist and Vision Festival organiser William Parker.
Planet Mu ZIQ061 CD This third album from London-based John Burton moves away from the glitch hop of his earlier outings on Tigerbeat6 towards a more eclectic mix of digitised pop balladry, musique concrète, dub and easy listening, edited and assembled with consummate panache.
It's a technically impressive but, in its stylistic plurality, aesthetically confusing package that I'd be tempted to qualify it as postmodern, were that word not so unfashionable these days.
www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/monthly2003/08aug_text.html#10   (4514 words)

  
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Simply uncomment the foreach statement that follows the comment "senseval-1 data" and comment out the foreach statement that follows the comment "senseval-2 data".
This is the same data as in Data-English-2, except that the sense distinctions are based on groups rather than senses.
Given the setup command above, you should change to the Test1 directory: cd Test1 Then run the desired duluth system as follows: duluthX LexSample stop-list token-def where X=1, 2, 3, etc. and LexSample the name of the directory in which the sense tagged data is located.
www.d.umn.edu /~tpederse/Code/Readme.Duluth-Shell.txt   (1851 words)

  
 Cd Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
CD Baby: a little CD store with the best new independent musicCD BABY: the best independent music from the cutest little record store on the web.
CD Celebrations Home PagePersonalized CD favors for weddings and anniversaries, musical gifts for the new baby and CD greeting cards for lots of celebrations, including landmark birthdays, anniversaries, and more!
CD Technology started as early as the 1800's.
molords.com /down5/39/cd-database.html   (446 words)

  
 Disambiguation -by Pandelis Karayorgis / Mat Maneri Quintet - CD LR 334 by Mat Maneri, Pandelis Karayorgis, Quintet ...
Disambiguation -by Pandelis Karayorgis / Mat Maneri Quintet - CD LR 334
Mat Maneri and Pandelis Karayorgis lead a quintet featuring an impressive line-up of some of the most creative musicians working in New York today, Tony Malaby on tenor sax, Michael Formanek on bass and Randy Peterson on drums.
In the liner notes (with audio CD only; see link below) Kevin Whitehead writes: " 'Disambiguation' succeeds on that rarefied level where compositions, orchestration, improvising strategies and individual talents all work toward a unified effect.
www.lulu.com /content/591099   (264 words)

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