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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.
Pronunciation
Noun
cartridge (plural cartridges)
- (firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict: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.
- (by extension) 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.
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.
- (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, 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.
- (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
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)
- 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 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)
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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
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enclosure containung read-only memory devices
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