Adjective cd has 1 sense
  1. four hundred, 400, cd - being one hundred more than three hundred
    Antonym: ordinal (indirect, via cardinal)
,Noun cd has 4 senses
  1. cadmium, Cd, atomic number 48 - a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
    --1 is a kind of metallic element, metal
    --1 is a substance of hemimorphite, calamine
  2. candle, candela, cd, standard candle - the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
    --2 is a kind of luminous intensity unit, candlepower unit
  3. certificate of deposit, CD - a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest
    --3 is a kind of debt instrument, certificate of indebtedness
    --3 has particulars: time deposit
  4. compact disk, compact disc, CD - a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser
    --4 is a kind of optical disk, optical disc; recording
    --4 has particulars:
     audio CD, audio compact disc; CD-R, compact disc recordable, CD-WO, compact disc write-once; CD-ROM, compact disc read-only memory
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