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Cartridge

//ˈkɑɹ.tɹɪd͡ʒ// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.

    "Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride."

  2. 2
    ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun wordnet
  3. 3
    A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly. broadly
  4. 4
    an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable wordnet
  5. 5
    A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
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  1. 6
    a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment wordnet
  2. 7
    Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.

    "The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated."

  3. 8
    a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required wordnet
  4. 9
    A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.

    "We would like to see someone market a low-power, text-to-speech cartridge that would mate with the Epson and use its internal battery pack."

  5. 10
    A small paper package, e.g. in an old book about making printer's type: After all the type has been cast: "The Boy will paper up each sort in a cartridge by itself". obsolete

Etymology

Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.

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