cartridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːtɹɪdʒ/
enpr: kärʹtrĭj
ipa: /ˈkɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɹɪdʒ
Forms: form: cartridges
form: cartage
Etymology: Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
glosses: A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1983, “Helpline”, in Sinclair User, number 21:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1981, Communication Outlook, volume 3:
text: 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[…]
ref: 2002, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 180:
text: 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.
ref: 2015 June 24, “Top 10 Chinese Knockoffs of Foreign Products” (00:01:54 from the start), in China Uncensored, spoken by himself (Chris Chappell), New Tang Dynasty Television, via New Tang Dynasty Television:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.
glosses: 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 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
paper cartridge
phono cartridge
removable cartridge
rifle cartridge
rim-fire cartridge
shot cartridge
tape cartridge
Travan cartridge
wildcat cartridge
wire cartridge