cassette

• casette (dated)

Borrowed from French cassette.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈsɛt/, /kæˈsɛt/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛt, -æsɪt

cassette (plural cassettes)

1. 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.

2. Any similar small cartridge, such as for a computer disk or cassette air conditioner
3. (photography) A lightproof container for photographic film.
4. (genetics) A modular DNA sequence encoding one or more genes for a single biochemical function.
5. (cycling) A set of sprockets mounted onto a splined shaft on the freehub.
6. A saggar (ceramic container used in a kiln)

• tape

• DAT
• VCR

• 
  audio cassettes
• 
  ROM cassette
• 
  film cassette
• 
  bicycle cassette

• cartridge
• eight track, 8 track
• reel-to-reel

• casettes, test case, testcase

Borrowed from French cassette. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑˈsɛ.tə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: cas‧set‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛtə

cassette f (plural cassettes or cassetten, diminutive cassettetje n)

1. An audio cassette.

   Synonyms: audiocassette, cassetteband

2. Any of various other cassette storage media.
3. A case for a film reel.
4. (architecture) A coffer (sunken panel in a ceiling).
5. (dated) A small chest, case or moneybox. [from 17th c.]

• audiocassette
• cassetteband
• cassetteplafond
• cassetterecorder
• cassettespeler
• videocassette

Old French casse (“case”) +‎ -ette (diminutive), hence a small case. Cognate with Italian cassetta.

• IPA^(key): /ka.sɛt/, /kɑ.sɛt/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Homophone: cassettes

cassette f (plural cassettes)

1. treasure box

   La cassette du roi. ― The royal treasure box.

2. small box

   Synonym: coffret

   Une cassette à compartiments. ― A small box with compartments.

3. cassette tape

   Synonym: K7

   Un magnétophone à cassette. ― A cassette tape recorder.

4. (cycling) cassette (set of sprockets)

• → Catalan: casset
• → Dutch: cassette
• → English: cassette
• → Portuguese: cassete
• → Spanish: casete

• “cassette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

cassette f pl

1. plural of cassetta

From Old French casse (“case”) +‎ -ette (diminutive).

cassette f (plural cassettes)

1. (Jersey) cassette