machine-readable
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[edit]machine-readable (comparative more machine-readable, superlative most machine-readable)
- Capable of being read by a machine, especially a computer system.
- 1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 51:
- This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology’s greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
- (computing) Organised or formatted in a way that permits unambiguous interpretation by a program.
- machine-readable dictionary
- An ASCII text file may not be considered machine-readable if its contents do not follow a predictable, well-defined structure.
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