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cassette(medicine)
Cassette(health)
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cassette recorder(dictionary)
cassette player(dictionary)
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video cassette(dictionary)
radio-cassette player(dictionary)

cassette (iou)



cassette noun. L18.
[French, dim. of casse, caisse CASE noun2: see -ETTE.]
A casket. Now rare. L18.
A container for transporting photographic plates; a frame or holder for an X-ray plate or film. L19.
A container for a spool of magnetic tape, photographic film, etc., fashioned so as to be immediately usable on insertion into equipment designed for it; (now usu.) such a container together with its tape, film, etc.; a video or audio magnetic recording on such a tape etc. M20.
Genetics. A block of genetic material which can be inserted or moved as a unit, esp. one which is expressed only at one location. L20.
Comb.: cassette deck, cassette player, cassette recorder, cassette tape-recorder: designed to (record and) play back magnetic tapes.