cassette
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- casette (dated)
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Borrowed from French cassette.
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cassette (plural cassettes)
- A small flat case containing magnetic tape on two reels, used to record and play back audio and video material.
- 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:
- If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.
- Any similar small cartridge, such as for a computer disk or cassette air conditioner
- (photography) A lightproof container for photographic film.
- (genetics) A modular DNA sequence encoding one or more genes for a single biochemical function.
- (cycling) A set of sprockets mounted onto a splined shaft on the freehub.
- A saggar (ceramic container used in a kiln)
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small flat case containing magnetic tape
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set of sprockets on a bicycle
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modular segment of DNA encoding genes for a single function
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audio cassettes
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ROM cassette
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film cassette
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bicycle cassette
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cassette. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
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cassette f (plural cassettes or cassetten, diminutive cassettetje n)
- An audio cassette.
- Synonyms: audiocassette, cassetteband
- Any of various other cassette storage media.
- A case for a film reel.
- (architecture) A coffer (sunken panel in a ceiling).
- (dated) A small chest, case or moneybox. [from 17th c.]
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Etymology edit
From Old French casse (“case”) + -ette (diminutive), hence a small case. Cognate with Italian cassetta.
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cassette f (plural cassettes)
- treasure box
- La cassette du roi. ― The royal treasure box.
- small box
- Synonym: coffret
- Une cassette à compartiments. ― A small box with compartments.
- cassette tape
- Synonym: K7
- Un magnétophone à cassette. ― A cassette tape recorder.
- (cycling) cassette (set of sprockets)
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- “cassette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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cassette f pl
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Etymology edit
From Old French casse (“case”) + -ette (diminutive).
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cassette f (plural cassettes)