| Subject | English | Italian |
| patents. | cassettes, compact discs, video tapes, video compact discs laser discs, interactive compact discs CD-Is, Read-Only-Memory discs CD-ROMs | cassette, compact disc, nastri video, video compact disc dischi laser, compact disc interattivi CD-I, dischi a memoria di sola lettura (CD-ROM) |
| comp., MS | compact disc read-only memory | Compact Disk Read Only Memory (A form of storage characterized by high capacity (roughly 650 MB) and the use of laser optics instead of magnetic means for reading data) |
| ed., IT | compact disc read-only memory | memoria CD-ROM |
| stat. | compact disc with read only memory | disco compatto a memoria di sola lettura |
| commun., IT | Compact Disc-Read Only Memory | memoria a sola lettura su compact disc |