cassette

English

Alternative forms

• casette (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French cassette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈsɛt/, /kæˈsɛt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

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)

Synonyms

• tape

Derived terms

• audiocassette, audio cassette
• cassette air conditioner
• cassette culture
• cassette deck
• cassette drive
• cassetteless
• cassettelike
• cassette player
• cassette recorder
• cassette tape
• cassingle
• compact cassette
• data cassette
• diskette
• gene cassette
• histocassette
• microcassette
• minicassette
• musicassette
• neocassette
• noncassette
• radio cassette
• videocassette, video cassette

 

Related terms

• DAT
• VCR

Translations

small flat case containing magnetic tape

• Albanian: kasetë f
• Arabic: كَاسِيت m (kaset), كَاسِيت m (kasīt)
• Armenian: կասետա (hy) (kaseta)
• Azerbaijani: kaset
• Belarusian: касе́та f (kasjéta), касэ́та f (kaséta)
• Bulgarian: касе́та f (kaséta)
• Burmese: ကက်ဆက် (my) (kakhcak)
• Catalan: casset f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡式 (zh) (kǎshì), 盒帶 / 盒带 (zh) (hédài), 盒式 (héshì), 卡匣 (kǎxiá)

• Czech: kazeta (cs) f
• Danish: kassette c
• Dutch: cassette (nl) f
• Esperanto: kasedo
• Estonian: kassett
• Finnish: kasetti (fi)
• French: cassette (fr) f, cassette audio (fr) f, audiocassette (fr) f, cassette vidéo f, vidéocassette (fr) f, K7 (fr) f
• Georgian: კასეტა (ḳaseṭa)
• German: Kassette (de) f, Audiokassette (de) f, Tonkassette f, Videokassette (de) f
• Greek: κασέτα (el) f (kaséta)
• Hebrew: קַלֶּטֶת (he) f (kalétet), קָסֶטָה (he) f (kaséta)
• Hindi: कैसेट m (kaiseṭ)
• Hungarian: kazetta (hu)
• Icelandic: kassetta (is) f
• Indonesian: kaset (id)
• Irish: caiséad m
• Italian: cassetta (it) f
• Japanese: カセット (ja) (kasetto)
• Kazakh: құндақ (qūndaq), кассета (kasseta)
• Khmer: កាសិត (kaasət), កាសែត (km) (kaasaet)
• Korean: 카세트 (ko) (kaseteu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kaset (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кассета (kasseta)
• Lao: ກາແຊັດ (kā sæt)
• Latin: capsella f
• Latvian: kasete f
• Lithuanian: kasetė f
• Macedonian: касе́та f (kaséta)
• Malay: kaset
• Marathi: कॅसेट f (kĕseṭ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: кассет (mn) (kasset)

• Norman: cassette f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kassett m

  Nynorsk: kassett m

• Pashto: کسېټ m (kaseṭ)
• Persian: کاست (fa) (kâset)
• Piedmontese: cassiëtta f
• Polish: kaseta (pl) f
• Portuguese: cassete (pt) m or f
• Romanian: casetă (ro) f
• Russian: кассе́та (ru) f (kasséta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: касѐта f

  Roman: kasèta (sh) f

• Slovak: kazeta f
• Slovene: kaseta f
• Spanish: casete (es) m
• Swahili: kaseti (sw)
• Swedish: kassett (sv) c
• Tajik: кассета (kasseta)
• Thai: คาสเซ็ต (káat-sèt)
• Tibetan: གླུ་གཞས་འཁོར་ཐག (glu gzhas 'khor thag), འཁོར་ཐག ('khor thag)
• Turkish: kaset (tr)
• Turkmen: kasseta
• Ukrainian: касе́та (uk) f (kaséta)
• Urdu: کیسِٹ m (kaiseṭ)
• Uyghur: كاسېتا (kasëta)
• Uzbek: kasseta (uz)
• Vietnamese: hộp băng, băng (vi) (繃), băng từ (vi) (繃磁), cát-xét
• Volapük: kasät, tonakasät (audio), magodakasät (video)
• Welsh: casét m

set of sprockets on a bicycle

• Dutch: cassette (nl) f
• Finnish: rataspakka (fi)
• French: cassette (fr) f
• German: Zahnkranzpaket n
• Italian: cassetta pignoni f, pacco pignoni m
• Polish: kaseta (pl) f

modular segment of DNA encoding genes for a single function

• Finnish: kasetti (fi)
• German: Kassette (de) f
• Korean: 카세트 (ko) (kaseteu)

Gallery

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

See also

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

Verb

cassette (third-person singular simple present cassettes, present participle cassetting, simple past and past participle cassetted)

1. To record onto a cassette

Anagrams

• casettes, test case, testcase

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑˈsɛ.tə/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Noun

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.]

Derived terms

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

French

Alternative forms

• (cassette tape): K7

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.sɛt/ ~ /kɑ.sɛt/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Homophone: cassettes

Noun

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

   Hyponyms: microcassette, minicassette, vidéocassette

   Un magnétophone à cassette. ― A cassette tape recorder.

4. (cycling) cassette (set of sprockets)

Derived terms

• cassette audio
• cassette vidéo
• microcassette
• minicassette
• musicassette
• vidéo-cassette
• vidéocassette

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: casset
• → Dutch: cassette
• → English: cassette
• → Portuguese: cassete
• → Spanish: casete
• → Persian: کاست (kâset)

Further reading

• “cassette” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
• “cassette” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “cassette” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise, 4th Edition (1762).
• “cassette” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “cassette” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “cassette” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “cassette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

cassette f pl

1. plural of cassetta

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

cassette f (plural cassettes)

1. (Jersey) cassette