| Subject | English | German |
| patents. | cassettes, compact discs, video tapes, video compact discs laser discs, interactive compact discs CD-Is, Read-Only-Memory discs CD-ROMs | Kassetten, CDs, Videobänder, Video-CDs Laserplatten, interaktive CDs CD-I, CD-ROMs |
| ed. | compact disc read only memory | CD-ROM |
| comp., MS | compact disc read-only memory | CD-ROM (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 | ROM-Kompaktdisk |
| ed., IT | compact disc read-only memory | Kompaktdisk-Speichereinheit |