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say it: KAHR-truhj
cartridge is a noun meaning "ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun". It is pronounced /ˈkɑɹtɹədʒ/ — KAHR-truhj. It carries 4 recorded senses.
ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun
a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment
“he loaded a cartridge of fresh tape into the tape deck”
an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cartridge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.