CARTRIDGE

Cartridge

A cartridge is a type of ammunition packaging a bullet, a propellant substance and a primer within a metallic, paper, or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the firing chamber of a firearm. The primer is a small charge of an impact-sensitive or electric-sensitive chemical mixture that can be located at the center of the case head, inside a rim, or in a projection such as in a pinfire or teat-fire cartridge. Military and commercial producers also make caseless ammunition. A cartridge without a bullet is called a blank. One that is completely inert is called a dummy.

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cartridge

Noun

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


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