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punched card

noun

  1. (formerly) a card on which data can be coded in the form of punched holes. In computing, there were usually 80 columns and 12 rows, each column containing a pattern of holes representing one character Sometimes shortened tocard
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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MacIntosh jotted down the data Alan gave him and transferred it to a punched card.

The survey-ship put its findings on a punched card, six inches by eight, and went hastily on in search of something better.

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