cartridge
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cartridge (plural cartridges)
- (firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
- (A general sense that arose by extension from the sense of firearm cartridge) A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
- (computing) A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
- (computing) Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.
- (obsolete) 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".
[edit] Derived terms
- ball cartridge
- bite the cartridge
- cartridge bag
- cartridge base
- cartridge belt
- cartridge brass
- cartridge box
- cartridge case
- cartridge clip
- cartridge drive
- cartridge ejector
- cartridge extractor
- cartridge-filler
- cartridge font
- cartridge fuse
- cartridge holder
- cartridge paper
- cartridge pen
- cartridge player
- cartridge remover
- cartridge seal
- cartridge-shot
- cartridge starter
- center-fire cartridge, centre-fire cartridge
- cheat cartridge
- disk cartridge
- DV cartridge
- font cartridge
- Hatton cartridge
- ignition cartridge
- ink cartridge
- magnetic cartridge
- removable cartridge
- rim-fire cartridge
- shot cartridge
- tape cartridge
- Travan cartridge
- wildcat cartridge
- wire cartridge
[edit] Translations
firearms package
vessel which contains the ink for a computer printer
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