Cassette may refer to:
Technology
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Cassette (format)
Cassette, also known as cassette tape, refers to a small plastic unit containing a length of magnetic tape on two reels. The design was created to replicate the way a reel-to-reel machine works with tape moving from one reel to another while bein ...
(or ''cassette tape''), a format that contains magnetic tape for audio, video, and data storage and playback
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Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company ...
, a worldwide standard for analog audio recording and playback on cassette
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Cassette single
A cassette single (CS), also known by the trademark cassingle, or capitalised as the trademark Cassette Single, is a music single (music), single supplied in the form of a Compact Cassette. The cassette single was introduced in 1980 in music, 1 ...
(or "Cassingle"), a music single in the form of a cassette tape
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Digital Audio Tape
Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987. In appearance it is similar to a Compact Cassette, using 3.81 mm / 0.15" (commonly referred to as 4 mm) magnetic t ...
(or ''DAT''), a digital audio cassette tape format, mainly used by professionals
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Digital Compact Cassette
Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) is a magnetic tape sound recording format introduced by Philips and Matsushita Electric in late 1992 and marketed as the successor to the standard analog Compact Cassette. It was also a direct competitor to Son ...
(or ''DCC''), a short-lived digital audio cassette format aimed at domestic users
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Data cassette
Magnetic-tape data storage is a system for storing digital information on magnetic tape using digital recording.
Tape was an important medium for primary data storage in early computers, typically using large open reels of 7-track, later ...
, the magnetic tape in plastic housing
Music
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''Album'' (Public Image Ltd album), a 1986 Public Image Ltd album called "Cassette" on certain editions
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Cassette (New Zealand band)
Cassette are an alt country/indie rock band from Wellington, New Zealand. They were formed in summer 1999–2000, and originally consisted of Tom Watson (guitar, vocals), Craig Terris (drums, vocals) and David Fraser (bass, keys and vocals). Th ...
, a band from New Zealand
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Cassette (South African band)
Cassette is a South African rock band.
The band won the South African Music Awards in the Best Rock Album category in 2007 for their debut album ''Welcome Back To Earth''. They were also nominated for two other categories, including the Best G ...
, a band from South Africa
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The Cassettes
The Cassettes (also known as ''The Cassettes Musical Explorers Society'') are a Washington, D.C.–based "Mystic Country"/Steampunk band formed in 1999.
History
The Cassettes were originally formed as an outgrowth of front-man Shelby Cinca’s ...
, a Washington, DC–based "Mystic Country"/Steampunk band formed in 1999
People
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Benny Cassette
Benny Cassette (born in Los Angeles) is an American record producer, rapper, singer, and songwriter. Signed to Kanye West's Very Good Beats as a producer since 2013, he worked on Kanye West's '' Yeezus'' and ''The Life of Pablo'' albums among o ...
, American record producer, singer, and songwriter
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Rafa Casette
Rafa Casette (born August 20, 1965) is a Spanish actor and singer. His career began aged 30 in a Spanish zarzuela called '' La Verbena de la Paloma'' in 1995. After his participation in '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' by St ...
(sometimes misspelled as ''Rafa Cassette'' or ''Rafa Casete'', born 1965), Spanish actor and singer
Other uses
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Gene cassette, certain vectors that are normally used to confer a selectable marker on an organism
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Cassette cogset, a set of multiple sprockets on a bicycle
* Cassette munition, a term for
Cluster munition
A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy veh ...
common in Slavic languages, particularly Ukrainian (касетні боєприпаси)
* Cassette toilet, a type of
portable camping toilet
See also
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Cartridge (disambiguation)
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