machine-readable
adjective
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adj
- 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.”
- 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.”