compact cassette

English

Noun

compact cassette (plural compact cassettes)

1. (sound engineering) The standard cassette tape format introduced in 1963 by Philips; an audio cassette.

Synonyms

• cassette tape {now synonymous with the original name "Compact Cassette", although originally there were competing cassette tape standards}
• audio cassette or (frequently) simply: cassette
• Compact Audio Cassette
• music cassette {pre-recorded cassette, also known as Music-Cassettes, and later just Musicassettes; (M.C. for short)}

See also

• Compact Cassette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
• video cassette
• tape deck
• autoreverse
• A-side