cassette tape

1. 1.

   a cassette that contains magnetic tape

   Broadermagnetic tape

   Part ofcassette

Questions about cassette tape

What does cassette tape mean?

cassette tape means "a cassette that contains magnetic tape".

Is cassette tape a common word?

cassette tape is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.