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punched tapes

punched tapes is the plural of punched tape.

Meaning of punched tape

Noun

punched tape (usually uncountable, plural punched tapes)

  1. (historical, usually) Synonym of paper tape (“an early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes”).
    • Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed.1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Recording Electric Operation”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 707

Questions about punched tapes

What is punched tapes the plural of?
Punched tapes is the plural of punched tape.

Words near punched tapes in the dictionary

  1. punched pocket
  2. punched pockets
  3. punched someone's lights out
  4. punched someone's ticket
  5. punched tape
  6. punched tapes
  7. punched the air
  8. punched up
  9. punched upward
  10. punched upwards
  11. punched-out

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