cartridge

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkɑːtrɪdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"kA:trIdZ/
• (US) enPR: kärʹtrĭj, IPA: /ˈkɑrtrɪdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"kArtrIdZ/

Noun

cartridge (plural cartridges)

1. (firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition (Wikipedia).
   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, The Dust of Conflict^[1]:

     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. (by extension) A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
3. (computing) A vessel which contains the ink (Wikipedia) or toner (Wikipedia) for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
4. (computing) Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data (Wikipedia).
5. (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".

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
• microcartridge
• removable cartridge
• rim-fire cartridge
• shot cartridge
• tape cartridge
• Travan cartridge
• wildcat cartridge
• wire cartridge

Translations

firearms package

• Armenian: փամփուշտ (hy) (pʿampʿušt)
• Bulgarian: патрон (bg) (patrón) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 槍彈 (cmn), 枪弹 (cmn) (qiāngdàn), 子彈 (cmn), 子弹 (cmn) (zǐdàn)

• Czech: náboj (cs) m
• Dutch: patroon (nl) m and f
• French: cartouche (fr) f
• German: Patrone (de) f

• Greek: φυσίγγιο (el) (fysigio) n
• Hungarian: töltény
• Italian: cartuccia (it) f
• Japanese: 実包 (ja) (じっぽう, jippō)
• Macedonian: набој (mk) (náboj) m, шаржер (mk) (šáržer) m
• Portuguese: cartucho (pt) m, pente (pt)
• Russian: патрон (ru) (patrón) m
• Slovak: náboj (sk) m
• Spanish: cartucho (es) m

vessel which contains the ink for a computer printer

• Albanian: fishek (sq) f
• Bulgarian: касета (bg) (kaseta) f
• Catalan: cartutx (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 墨盒 (cmn) (mòhé)

• Czech: kazeta (cs) f
• Dutch: inktpatroon (nl) m and f, patroon (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: kartoĉo (eo)
• Estonian: kassett (et)
• Finnish: kasetti (fi)
• French: cartouche (fr) f
• German: Patrone (de), Kartusche (de)
• Hungarian: patron (hu)
• Italian: cartuccia (it)

• Japanese: インクカートリッジ (ja) (inkukātorijji)
• Korean: 카트리지 (ko) (kateuliji)
• Latin: cucullus (la) m
• Malay: peluru (ms)
• Portuguese: cartucho (pt) m
• Romanian: cartuș (ro)
• Russian: картридж (ru) (kártridž) m
• Slovak: kazeta (sk) f
• Spanish: cartucho (es) m
• Tagalog: kartutso (tl)
• Thai: กระสุน (th) (grasoon)
• Vietnamese: mực (vi)
• Volapük: niniär (vo), niganiniär (vo)
• Welsh: cetris (cy)

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Translations to be checked

• Thai: กระสุนปืน