cartridge

See also: Cartridge

English

Alternative forms

• cartage

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːtɹɪdʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) enPR: kärʹtrĭj, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɹɪdʒ

Noun

cartridge (plural cartridges)

1. (firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     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 or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
4. (computing) Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.
   • 1983, “Helpline”, in Sinclair User, number 21:

     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.

5. (computing) A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.
   • 1981, Communication Outlook, volume 3:

     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.

   • 2002, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 180:

     Nintendo made sure to loudly trumpet all of the advantages of the cartridge format, particularly the greatly reduced loading times and the sturdiness of the cartridges […]

   • 2015 June 24, “Top 10 Chinese Knockoffs of Foreign Products” (00:01:54 from the start), in China Uncensored‎^[1], spoken by himself (Chris Chappell), New Tang Dynasty Television, via New Tang Dynasty Television:

     Not as good, though, as the PolyStation. Looks like a first-generation PlayStation in a Nitendo 64 box. And even though that bit on top looks like it should take a disc, it actually uses something like a Super Nintendo cartridge.

6. (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
• blank cartridge
• blank-cartridge
• cartomizer
• cartridge bag
• cartridge base
• cartridge belt
• cartridge box
• cartridge brass
• cartridge case
• cartridge clip
• cartridge drive
• cartridge ejector
• cartridge extractor
• cartridge-filler
• cartridge font
• cartridge fuse
• cartridge holder
• cartridgeless
• cartridgelike
• cartridge paper
• cartridge pen
• cartridge player
• cartridge pleat
• 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
• memory cartridge
• microcartridge
• multicartridge
• phono cartridge
• removable cartridge
• rim-fire cartridge
• shot cartridge
• tape cartridge
• Travan cartridge
• wildcat cartridge
• wire cartridge

 

Translations

firearms package

• Afrikaans: patroon
• Albanian: fishek (sq) m
• Arabic: خَرْطُوش m (ḵarṭūš), خَرْطُوشَة f (ḵarṭūša) (singulative)
• Armenian: փամփուշտ (hy) (pʻampʻušt)
• Azerbaijani: patron
• Belarusian: патро́н m (patrón)
• Bulgarian: патро́н (bg) m (patrón)
• Burmese: ကျည် (my) (kyany)
• Catalan: cartutx (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 槍彈／枪弹 (zh) (qiāngdàn), 子彈／子弹 (zh) (zǐdàn)

• Czech: náboj (cs) m
• Danish: patron (da) c
• Dutch: patroon (nl) m or f
• Estonian: padrun
• Finnish: patruuna (fi)
• French: cartouche (fr) f
• Galician: cartucho m
• Georgian: ვაზნა (vazna)
• German: Patrone (de) f
• Greek: φυσίγγιο (el) n (fysíngio)
• Hebrew: מחסנית (he) f (makhsánnit), תרמיל (he) m (tharmill)
• Hindi: कारतूस (hi) m (kārtūs)
• Hungarian: töltény (hu)
• Hunsrik: Kartusch f
• Ido: kartocho (io)
• Ingrian: patrona
• Italian: cartuccia (it) f
• Japanese: 実包 (ja) (じっぽう, jippō)
• Kazakh: патрон (patron)
• Korean: 탄약통(彈藥筒) (ko) (tanyaktong)
• Kyrgyz: патрон (patron)
• Latvian: patrona f, šāviņš m
• Lithuanian: patronas m, šovinys m
• Macedonian: па́трон m (pátron), на́бој m (náboj)
• Maori: kariri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: patron m

  Nynorsk: patron f

• Ottoman Turkish: فشك (fişek)
• Persian: فشنگ (fa) (fešang)
• Polish: nabój (pl) m
• Portuguese: cartucho (pt) m, pente (pt)
• Romanian: cartuș (ro) n
• Russian: патро́н (ru) m (patrón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ме̏так m, патро́на f, фишуга f

  Roman: mȅtak (sh) m, patróna (sh) f, fišuga (sh) f

• Sicilian: cartocciu m
• Slovak: náboj m
• Slovene: naboj (sl) m
• Spanish: cartucho (es) m, cartuchera (es) f
• Swahili: ramia
• Swedish: patron (sv) c
• Tagalog: kartutso
• Tajik: патрон (patron)
• Turkish: kovan (tr), hartuç (tr), fişek (tr) sg
• Ukrainian: набі́й m (nabíj), патро́н (uk) m (patrón)
• Uzbek: patron (uz)

vessel which contains the ink for a computer printer

• Albanian: fishek (sq) f
• Azerbaijani: kartric, картриҹ
• Belarusian: ка́ртрыдж m (kártrydž)
• Bulgarian: касе́та f (kaséta)
• Catalan: cartutx (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 墨盒 (zh) (mòhé), (toner cartridge) 硒鼓 (xīgǔ)

• Czech: kazeta (cs) f
• Danish: patron (da) c
• Dutch: inktpatroon m or f, patroon (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: kartoĉo
• Estonian: kassett
• Faroese: patrón f
• Finnish: kasetti (fi), mustekasetti
• French: cartouche (fr) f
• German: Patrone (de), Kartusche (de)
• Hebrew: מחסנית (he) f (makhsánnit)
• Hungarian: patron (hu)
• Indonesian: katrij (id), tabung cetak
• Italian: cartuccia (it)
• Japanese: インクカートリッジ (inkukātorijji)
• Korean: 카트리지 (ko) (kateuriji)
• Latin: cucullus m
• Macedonian: касе́та f (kaséta)
• Malay: peluru (ms)
• Marathi: कार्टरिज f (kārṭarij)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: картриж (kartriž)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: patron m

  Nynorsk: patron f

• Persian: کارتریج (fa) (kârtrij)
• Polish: kartridż (pl) m, kaseta drukująca f, wkład drukujący m, kartusz (pl) f, pojemnik z tuszem m
• Portuguese: cartucho (pt) m
• Romanian: cartuș (ro)
• Russian: ка́ртридж (ru) m (kártridž)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: kertridž m, kaseta sa mastilom f, ispisni uložak m, ispisni spremnik m, ispisna uloška f, kartuš m

• Slovak: kazeta f
• Spanish: cartucho (es) m, cartucho de tinta m
• Swedish: bläckpatron (sv) c, patron (sv) c
• Tagalog: kartutso
• Thai: กระสุน (th) (grà-sǔn)
• Turkish: kartuş (tr)
• Ukrainian: ка́ртридж m (kártrydž)
• Vietnamese: mực (vi)
• Volapük: niniär, niganiniär
• Welsh: cetris

enclosure containung read-only memory devices

• Esperanto: kasedo, kaseto
• Marathi: कार्टरिज f (kārṭarij)
• Portuguese: cartucho (pt) m, fita (pt) f

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