cartridge

noun7

1. •
   The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.

   • Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride. — 1907
2. •
   A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
3. •
   A replaceable valve assembly within a faucet or shower fixture that regulates the flow and temperature of the water.
4. •
   A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
5. •
   Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.

   • The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated. — 1983
6. •
   A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.

   • We would like to see someone market a low-power, text-to-speech cartridge that would mate with the Epson and use its internal battery pack. — 1981
7. •
   (no longer used) A small paper package, e.g. in an old book about making printer's type: After all the type has been cast: "The Boy will paper up each sort in a cartridge by itself".