DVD stands for digital versatile disk.

Buncha surly nit-pickers insist it means "digital versatile disk."

Base on this principle, Sergi Morais achieved multiplexed microimmunoassays on a digital versatile disk.

It can use the same digital versatile disk and a standard DVD drive without any supplementary hardware.

Now, with the music business stagnant, here we go again: the hype is beginning for DVD, the digital versatile disk (hastily renamed from digital video disk).

(The letters stand for digital versatile disk, though no one actually uses that phrase.)

Should you embrace the aging movie laser-disk player, or choose a playback machine for the newer DVD (digital versatile disk) format?

With the explosion of DVD advertising, it is easy to forget that the plastic plate, the digital versatile disk, has existed in the marketplace for only seven years.

It will be called DVD, which stands for "digital versatile disk," to draw attention to its ability to store movies, multimedia, data and music.

But all is not well with DVD, which stands for digital video disk or digital versatile disk, depending on who is doing the talking.