Meaning of Cartridge | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
2. A surname.
3. A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
   broadly
4. A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
5. Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.
6. A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.
7. 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".
   obsolete

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Examples

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“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⟳.”

“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[…]”

“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.”

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