💽 Minidisc

A minidisc, depicted as a small, silver or gold optical disc housed in a square cartridge, its shutter positioned to the right. Discontinued as an audio and data storage format in 2013 due to the success of CD and MP3 technology, though the emoji is commonly used to represent CDs, DVDs, and related film and music content, especially albums. Samsung’s design previously featured a silver disc labeled MD, for minidisc. Early designs from au by KDDI showed an angled 💾 Floppy Disk, perhaps as being inserted or ejected into a computer drive. See also 💿 Optical Disc and 📀 DVD.

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💽 Minidisc

Unicode: U+1F4BD

Image Variants

Minidisc 3D

3D

Minidisc Color

Color

Minidisc Flat

Flat

Minidisc High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version: 1.0
Unicode Version: 6.0

Keywords

computer disk minidisk optical

Shortcodes

PlatformShortcodeAction
github:minidisc:
slack:minidisc:
discord:minidisc:

How It’s Used in Language

Adjectives

  • Of or relating to or involving light or optics
  • Of, or relating to visible light

Verbs

  • Interpret something that is written or printed

Nouns

  • Optical disc used to store digital data
  • An optical disc used to store audio or other data.
  • Compact disc is a digital optical disc data storage format.
  • A digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser
  • An optical storage medium for digital data.
  • Compact disc; a form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from a plastic disc in a reader device.
  • A flat, round, optical medium that can store up to 700 megabytes of digital data or 80 minutes of audio. Data stored is read using a laser.
  • Optical disc used to store data.
  • A reusable magnetic storage medium. The floppy disk used today is the rigid 3.5-inch microfloppy that holds 1.44 MB. It is called floppy because the first varieties were housed in bendable jackets.
  • A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
  • Disk storage medium
  • A very small disk (in any of many contexts)

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