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• machine-readable
  machine-readable

  adjective

  of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
• machine readable
  machine readable

  adjective

  (of data) in a form in which it can be fed into a computer

machine-readable

American  

[muh-sheen-ree-duh-buhl] / məˈʃinˈri də bəl /

adjective

Computers.

1. of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.

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machine readable British  

adjective

1. (of data) in a form in which it can be fed into a computer

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Etymology

Origin of machine-readable

First recorded in 1960–65

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Truth API provides customers with machine-readable feeds from popular accounts within milliseconds, McGurn said Monday, giving customers “fractionally faster” access to public information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Claude Code Security focuses on securing code bases, while JFrog helps companies manage and secure software binaries—the conversion of plain-text code into machine-readable language.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

The company then proceeded to strip the books’ bindings, cut their pages and scan them into digital and machine-readable forms, according to the decision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025

He believes the models need a better sense of useful mathematical maneuvers, so he’s focused on translating researchers’ proofs into machine-readable language that could be used as training data.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024

LC does well to acquire specific machine-readable products selectively that were intended to be machine-readable.

From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress

If you are a permanent resident, you must have a machine readable permanent resident card.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

A White House directive in 2022 requires that papers produced with federal funding be machine readable, but agencies have yet to propose details.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023

DNS is a service that translates readable domain names to machine readable IP addresses, connecting it to a server and delivering the requested page on the user’s phone or laptop.

From Reuters ● Jul. 22, 2021

Since the ballot would be both human readable and machine readable, there would be no question at to the vote.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2018

However, as the product is machine readable, search is easier than working from an index, and I tried to support the use of such facilities.

From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley