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n. (context computing English) A device for reading data from a CD-ROM.
Usage examples of "cd-rom drive".
Your computer notices a bootable disk in the floppy or CD-ROM drive, loads in some object code from that disk, and blindly begins to execute it.
He had hooked up a CD-ROM drive to the PC on Gilmore's desk and was staring at the screen, right hand on mouse, left hand on keyboard, bottom jaw on floor.
Randy moves the golden disc to the CD-ROM drive that is built into his laptop, and checks it out.
For example, even if you normally start Windows NT from the C: drive, someone could select another version of Windows on another drive, including a floppy drive or CD-ROM drive.
She rolled her chair a few feet to the next keyboard and stuck another disc into its CD-rom drive, quickly calling up some documents on to the screen.
In reasonable definition and color Terminator 2's robots from the future slugged it out, running from the CD-ROM drive.
The CD-ROM drive protruded from the casing like an impetuous teenager’.