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View synonyms for smart card

smart card

noun

  1. a small plastic card embedded with a memory chip and often a microprocessor, used for financial transactions, identification, as a key, etc.


smart card

noun

  1. a plastic card with integrated circuits used for storing and processing computer data Also calledlaser cardintelligent card
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of smart card1

First recorded in 1980–85
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Example Sentences

There are three types - key meters, smart card meters and smart prepayment meters.

From BBC

You need a smart card with your data on it to get your subsidised bread or allocation of fuel or gas - a text tells you when it's time to join the queue.

From BBC

Shipments from China to Russia of smart cards, light-emitting diodes, polysilicon, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and other goods have also risen, the firm said.

A law enacted last year provides for electronic voting machines and smart card readers to confirm voters are registered in a central database.

From Reuters

To pay for charges, I downloaded the Electric Circuit app, and tried to order a smart card that allows charging where there is no cellphone coverage.

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