What does "cartridge" mean?
The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
Cartridge
/ˈkɑɹ.tɹɪd͡ʒ/ name, noun
name, noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
- Grammar: cartridge is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: ammo, audio sound system, audiophile, backing.
- Usage evidence: Please replace the empty ink jet cartridge in the printer.
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Definitions
Noun
- 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 ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun wordnet
- 3 A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly. broadly
- 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 A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
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- 6 a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment wordnet
- 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."
- 8 a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required wordnet
- 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."
- 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
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Please replace the empty ink jet cartridge in the printer."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "cartridge"?
Common synonyms include: ammo, audio sound system, audiophile, backing, ball cartridge, bibliofilm.
How do you use "cartridge" in a sentence?
Please replace the empty ink jet cartridge in the printer.
How do you pronounce "cartridge"?
Pronounced /ˈkɑɹ.tɹɪd͡ʒ/.
Etymology
Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.