cassette

• casette (dated)

Borrowed from French cassette.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈsɛt/, /kæˈsɛt/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛt

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

  (file)

• 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

From 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