The Collaborative International Dictionary
compact disk player \com"pact disk` play"er\(k[o^]m"p[a^]kt d[i^]sk` pl[=a]"[~e]r), n. an electronic device containing a laser, used to read or play back the data on a compact disk. The term is usually used for the type of device used to play music recordings. That used for data storgage n coputer applications is usually called a CD drive. Called also CD player and informally, CD.
Syn: CD player.
electronic device \electronic device\ n. a device depending on the principles of electronics and using the manipulation of electron flow for its operation.
Note: Numerous electronic devices are in daily use, among them the television, radio, computer, robot, transmitter, receiver, VCR, CD player, etc.
Wiktionary
n. (context computer hardware English) An electronic device that plays compact discs.
Wikipedia
A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format. CD players were first sold to consumers in 1982. CDs typically contain recordings of audio material such as music. CD players are often a part of home stereo systems, car audio systems, and personal computers. With the exception of CD boomboxes, most CD players do not produce sound by themselves. Most CD players only produce an output signal via a headphone jack and/or RCA jacks. To listen to music using a CD player with a headphone output jack, the user plugs headphones or earphones into the headphone jack. To use a CD player in a home stereo system, the user connects an RCA cable to the RCA jacks or other outputs and connects it to a hi-fi (or other amplifier) and loudspeakers for listening to music. They are also manufactured as portable devices, which are battery powered and typically used with headphones.
Modern units can play other formats in addition to PCM audio coding used in CDs, such as MP3, AAC and WMA. DJs playing dance music at clubs often use specialized players with an adjustable playback speed to alter the pitch and tempo of the music. Audio engineers using CD players to play music for an event through a sound reinforcement system use professional audio-grade CD players. CD playback functionality is also available on CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive equipped computers as well as on DVD players and CD-ROM/DVD-ROM based game consoles.
CD Player was a computer program that played audio CDs using the computer's sound card. It was included in Windows 98, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 (as Deluxe CD Player). The program was also made available for Windows 95. It was removed from later versions of Windows starting with Windows ME, being replaced by Windows Media Player.
Usage examples of "cd player".
He spits his doobie and gropes over my head for a pack of Marlboros, stashed beside the CD player.
I've put a CD of the Traveling Wilburys into a portable CD player that sits on the headboard above the bed, to mute any screams.
Another large pool covers the hardwood floor beneath the long, low table where Henry sometimes used to park his portable CD player and stack the evening's CDs.
Tannim digested this, and to buy himself a little time to think, picked up the audio controls and triggered the CD player.
But in place of his old clock-radio on the stand beside the bed there was a new digital clock-radio that included a CD player.
Somehow the CD player had started up again and the voice of a singer who had no voice irritated his ears with tinny electronically enhanced appeals to her own genital spirits.
She stared hard at the slashed and gaping hole in the dashboard where the CD player had been.
He lifted out a Zip disk, a portable CD player and headset, a set of car keys and a wallet.