smart card

American  

noun

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

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smart card British  

noun

1. Also called: laser card.   intelligent card.  a plastic card with integrated circuits used for storing and processing computer data

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Etymology

Origin of smart card

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2024

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 • Feb. 17, 2023

Unconsciously, we leave a trace of our behaviour every time we swipe a smart card, address Amazon’s Alexa or touch our phone.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2019

Security experts are cheering Apple’s move to NFC because it incorporates the chip-based smart card standard known as EMV—for Europay-Mastercard-Visa—the companies that first backed the technology.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2014

Another fast developing solution is the smart card.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel