machine-readable
machine-readable adjective: capable of being read by a machine, especially a computer system.
Adjective
machine-readable (comparative more machine-readable, superlative most machine-readable)
- Capable of being read by a machine, especially a computer system.
- 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.1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 51
- 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.
machine-readable meaning in Indonesian
machine-readable in Indonesian
- Translations
- terbaca mesin
Forms of machine-readable
| comparative | more machine-readable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most machine-readable |
Questions about machine-readable
- What does machine-readable mean?
- Machine-readable means capable of being read by a machine, especially a computer system.
- What is machine-readable in Indonesian?
- Machine-readable in Indonesian is terbaca mesin. See Machine-readable meaning in Indonesian.
- What part of speech is machine-readable?
- Machine-readable is an adjective.
Words near machine-readable in the dictionary
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