compact cassette
English
Noun
compact cassette (plural compact cassettes)
- (sound engineering) The standard cassette tape format introduced in 1963 by Philips; an audio cassette.
Synonyms
- cassette tape {now synonymous with the original name "Compact Cassette", although originally there were competing cassette tape standards}
- audio cassette or (frequently) simply: cassette
- Compact Audio Cassette
- music cassette {pre-recorded cassette, also known as Music-Cassettes, and later just Musicassettes; (M.C. for short)}
See also
- Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
- video cassette
- tape deck
- autoreverse
- A-side
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