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Cd   /sˈidˈi/   Listen
Cd

noun
1.
A soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores.  Synonyms: atomic number 48, cadmium.
2.
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.  Synonyms: candela, candle, standard candle.
3.
A debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest.  Synonym: certificate of deposit.
4.
A digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser.  Synonyms: compact disc, compact disk.



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"Cd" Quotes from Famous Books



... procur'd me a small Pedestal, such as is describ'd in the fifth Figure of the first Scheme on the small Pillar AB, of which were two movable Armes CD, which by means of the Screws EF, I could fix in any part of the Pillar; on the undermost of these I plac'd a pretty large Globe of Glass G, fill'd with exceeding clear Brine, stopt, inverted, and fixt in the manner visible ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke

... occasion and A.'s appearance, 341; compli. of press, gifts, lets., poems by P. Cary, J. Hooker, etc., 342; response, can speak only to rouse people to action, sympathetic note to mother, luncheon with Cary sisters, disappointed Mrs. Stn., cd. not share happiness, 343; entry in journal on fiftieth birthday, "If I were dead," distrusts power as orator, 344; begins with Lyceum Bureau, A. Dickinson's devotion, at Peoria, Ill., Col. Ingersoll supplements ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... with cruel weight on the labouring classes, the general trend of the prices of the necessaries of life in Germany has been downwards, in spite of all the protectionist duties. The evidence compiled in the British official Blue-book on "British and Foreign Trade and Industry" (1903. Cd. 1761, p. 226) yields the following results. By comparing the necessary expenditure on food of a workman's family of the same size and living under the same conditions, it appears that if we take that expenditure for the period 1897-1901 to represent the number ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose



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