Human-readable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That can be read by humans (as well as computers), such as a file format based on plain text.
  2. 2
    Of writing, without excessive jargon.

    "This is a human-readable summary of the Creative Commons license."

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"This is a human-readable summary of the Creative Commons license."

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