# cassette
## English
### Alternative forms

* casette (dated)

### Etymology

Borrowed from French cassette.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kəˈsɛt/, /kæˈsɛt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Noun

cassette (plural cassettes)
* A small flat case containing magnetic tape on two reels, used to record and play back audio and video material.
** 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.
* Any similar small cartridge, such as for a computer disk or cassette air conditioner
* (photography) A lightproof container for photographic film.
* (genetics) A modular DNA sequence encoding one or more genes for a single biochemical function.
* (cycling) A set of sprockets mounted onto a splined shaft on the freehub.
* A saggar (ceramic container used in a kiln)

#### Synonyms

* tape

#### Derived terms

* audiocassette, audio cassette
* cassette air conditioner
* cassette culture
* cassette deck
* cassette drive
* cassetteless
* cassettelike
* cassette player
* cassette recorder
* cassette tape
* cassingle
* compact cassette
* data cassette
* diskette
* gene cassette
* histocassette
* microcassette
* minicassette
* musicassette
* music cassette
* neocassette
* noncassette
* radio cassette
* videocassette, video cassette

#### Related terms

* DAT
* VCR

#### Translations
### Gallery

* audio cassettes
* ROM cassette
* film cassette
* bicycle cassette

#### See also

* cartridge
* eight track, 8 track
* reel-to-reel

### Verb

cassette (third-person singular simple present cassettes, present participle cassetting, simple past and past participle cassetted)
* To record onto a cassette

### Anagrams

* casettes, test case, testcase

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cassette. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkɑˈsɛ.tə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cas‧set‧te
* Rhymes: -ɛtə

### Noun

cassette f (plural cassettes or cassetten, diminutive cassettetje n)
* an audio cassette
    Synonyms: audiocassette, cassetteband
* any of various other cassette storage media
* a case for a film reel
* (architecture) a coffer (sunken panel in a ceiling)
* (dated) a small chest, case or moneybox [from 17th c.]

#### Derived terms

* audiocassette
* cassetteband
* cassetteplafond
* cassetterecorder
* cassettespeler
* videocassette

## French
### Alternative forms

* (cassette tape): K7

### Etymology

From Old French casse (“case”) +‎ -ette (diminutive), hence a small case. Cognate with Italian cassetta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.sɛt/ ~ /kɑ.sɛt/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Homophone: cassettes

### Noun

cassette f (plural cassettes)
* treasure box
    La cassette du roi. ― The royal treasure box.
* small box
    Synonym: coffret
    Une cassette à compartiments. ― A small box with compartments.
* cassette tape
    Hyponyms: microcassette, minicassette, vidéocassette
    Un magnétophone à cassette. ― A cassette tape recorder.
* (cycling) cassette (set of sprockets)

#### Derived terms

* cassette audio
* cassette vidéo
* microcassette
* minicassette
* musicassette
* vidéo-cassette
* vidéocassette

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: casset
* → Dutch: cassette
* → English: cassette
* → Portuguese: cassete
* → Spanish: casete
* → Persian: کاست (kâset)

### Further reading

* “cassette” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
* “cassette” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
* “cassette” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise, 4th Edition (1762).
* “cassette” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
* “cassette” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
* “cassette” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
* “cassette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Noun

cassette f pl
* plural of cassetta

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French casse (“case”) +‎ -ette (diminutive).

### Noun

cassette f (plural cassettes)
* (Jersey) cassette