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machine-readable (comparative more machine-readable, superlative most machine-readable)

  1. 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.
  2. (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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