| Subject | English | German |
| IT | CD-rewritable | Compact-Disc,wiederbeschreibbar |
| comp., MS | compact disc-rewritable | wiederbeschreibbare CD (A type of CD on which files can be copied, erased, and replaced) |
| comp. | compact disk rewritable | wiederbeschreibbare Bildplatte |
| comp., MS | rewritable digital video disc | wiederbeschreibbare DVD (Technology for recording data on disks that have the same storage capacity as digital video discs (DVDs) but can be rewritten like the compact disc-rewritable (CD-RW) devices) |
| busin., IT | rewritable optical disk | wiederbeschreibbare Bildplatte |
| gen. | rewritable optical disks | wiederbeschreibbare optische Speicherplatten |
| IT | rewritable optical phase disc | durch Phasenänderung mehrfach beschreibbare optische Platte |
| IT, earth.sc. | rewritable phase change disc | durch Phasenänderung mehrfach beschreibbare Platte |