English Dictionary

cartridge

/ˈkɑːtɹɪdʒ/

noun

(firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.

He loaded a new cartridge into the rifle.

意味（1）

(firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.

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.

意味（2）

(by extension) A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.

意味（3）

(computing) A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.

意味（4）

(computing) Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.

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.

意味（5）

(computing) A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.

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.

意味（6）

(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".