Cartridge meaning

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A case filled with high explosives, used in blasting.
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A small modular unit designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment.

An ink cartridge; a disposable cartridge of caulking compound.

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A removable case containing the stylus and electric conversion circuitry in a phonograph pickup.
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A lightproof case with photographic film that can be loaded directly into a camera.
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A cylindrical case of cardboard, metal, etc. containing the charge and primer, and usually the projectile, for a firearm.
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Any of various small containers, holding a supply of material for a larger device into which it is inserted.

An ink cartridge for a pen, a toner cartridge for a desktop printer.

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A protected roll of camera film.
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A replaceable unit in the pickup of an electric phonograph, containing the stylus, or needle.
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A surname​.
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Origin of cartridge

  • Alteration of earlier cartage alteration of French cartouche from Italian cartuccio variant of cartoccio roll of paper cartouche
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cartridge Sentence Examples

  • Marine algae are usually mounted on tough smooth white cartridge paper in the following manner.

  • Prison labour has found an outlet, therefore, in such work as service blanket making, hammock making, mail-bag making, the manufacture of cartridge cases, flags, chopping firewood for barracks and so on, having been diverted almost entirely from mat-making, once an exclusive prison trade originally invented indeed by prison task-masters.

  • Body of Grenade Sleeve with Vanes Regulating Pin 'FIG.15 ' 8peoial Cartridge Discharger Barrel Attachment the spring of 1878.

  • On the 1st of May the 7th Oudh infantry refused to bite the cartridge, but on the 3rd they were disarmed by other regiments.

  • The Bourbonists, although they bombarded the city from the citadel and the warships in the harbour, gradually lost ground, and after three days' street fighting their commander, General Lanza, not knowing that the Garibaldians had scarcely a cartridge left, asked for and obtained a twenty-four hours' armistice (May 30th).

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