variants
or less commonly casette
1
2
: a usually flat case or cartridge that can be easily loaded or unloaded: such as
a
: a lightproof magazine for holding film or plates for use in a camera
b
: a plastic cartridge containing magnetic tape with the tape passing from one reel to another
3
: a cassette tape player
Examples of cassette in a Sentence
The songs are available on cassette.
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Highlights for Baby Boomers included the popular Ford Mustang, the invention of the Frisbee, and cassette tapes for listening to Elvis Presley and The Beatles.
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
The new music was found among the hundreds of cassette tapes, scripts, music files and journals in Larson’s apartment after his shocking death from an aortic dissection at age 35 in 1996.
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Music and movies were delivered through physical media like cassette tapes, VHS, CDs and DVDs.
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My dad gave me these tapes, and my first two cassette tapes were The Offspring, Smash and Kraftwerk.
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
The new music was found among the hundreds of cassette tapes, scripts, music files and journals in Larson’s apartment after his shocking death from an aortic dissection at age 35 in 1996.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2025
Music and movies were delivered through physical media like cassette tapes, VHS, CDs and DVDs.
—Taesik Yoon, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
My dad gave me these tapes, and my first two cassette tapes were The Offspring, Smash and Kraftwerk.
—Hoda Mallone, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Cassette.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cassette. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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cassette
noun
cas·sette
kə-ˈset 
ka-
: a container holding film, photographic plates, or magnetic tape
Medical Definition
cassette
noun
cas·sette
variants
also casette
1
: a lightproof magazine for holding film or plates for use in a camera
specifically
: one for holding the intensifying screens and film in X-ray photography
2
: a small plastic cartridge containing magnetic tape with the tape on one reel passing to the other
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