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| boom box |
a portable stereo radio with built-in speakers, a carrying handle, and usu. a cassette or CD player, capable of producing loud sound. |
| cadmium |
a chemical element that has forty-eight protons in each nucleus and occurs in various compounds or in pure form as a soft bluish white metal. (symbol: Cd) |
| CD1 |
abbreviation of "compact disk," a round, flat disk that sound can be recorded on and that people can listen to. Other types of information can be stored on a CD also. The information on a CD is in the same form as the information stored in a computer. It is digital information. You play a CD on a special device that has a laser in it that can "read" the information on the CD. |
| console2 |
a cabinet for a television set, CD player, or radio. |
| Roman numeral |
a letter used as a number in the ancient Roman number system. The letter I equals 1, V equals 5, X equals 10, L equals 50, C equals 100, D equals 500, and M equals 1,000. In this system, a letter followed by one of equal or lesser value means the two are added; seven is VII, or 5+1+1. A letter followed by one of greater value means that the first is subtracted from the second; four hundred is CD, or 500-100. |
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