| Subject | German | English |
| IT | Compact-Disc,wiederbeschreibbar | CD-rewriteable |
| IT | Compact-Disc,wiederbeschreibbar | compact disc-rewriteable |
| IT | Compact-Disc,wiederbeschreibbar | CD-rewritable |
| comp. | wiederbeschreibbare Bildplatte | CD-RW |
| busin., IT | wiederbeschreibbare Bildplatte | rewritable optical disk |
| comp. | wiederbeschreibbare Bildplatte | compact disk rewritable |
| comp., MS | wiederbeschreibbare CD | compact disc-rewritable (A type of CD on which files can be copied, erased, and replaced) |
| comp., MS | wiederbeschreibbare DVD | rewritable digital video disc (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) |
| gen. | wiederbeschreibbare optische Speicherplatten | rewritable optical disks |