audiocassette

American  

[aw-dee-oh-kuh-set, ‐ka-set] / ˈɔ di oʊ kəˌsɛt, ‐kæˌsɛt /

Or audio cassette

noun

1. a cassette containing audiotape.

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Etymology

Origin of audiocassette

First recorded in 1965–70; audio- ( def. ) + cassette ( def. )

Example Sentences

In the analog days of the 1970s, long before hackers, trolls and edgelords, an audiocassette company came up with an advertising slogan that posed a trick question: “Is it live or is it Memorex?”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2024

The Northwest Film Forum will show the documentary “Notes on Blindness,” about a man who keeps a diary on audiocassette after he goes blind, Friday-Sunday, Jan. 13-15.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2017

So begins a diary entry from April 1984, recorded on audiocassette, about the nature of acoustic experience.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2016

For years afterward, he recorded a diary on audiocassette.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2016

Cables snaked out of the back of the machine, leading to an audiocassette recorder, a small color television, a dot-matrix printer, and a 300-baud modem.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline