Machine-readable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    Organised or formatted in a way that permits unambiguous interpretation by a program.

    "machine-readable dictionary"

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"The JMdict/EDICT project has as its goal the production of a freely available Japanese-English Dictionary in machine-readable form."

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