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As a noun, cartridge means the package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder.
Meanings of cartridge
10 meaningsnoun
firearmsThe package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
computingA vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
computingMagnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.
computingA removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.
Ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun
A light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
Similar: magazineA module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment
“he loaded a cartridge of fresh tape into the tape deck”
An electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
Similar: pickup
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoleteA 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".
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).