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

Example Sentences

Then think of “business ontology” as a digital, machine-readable version of the company, like the New York & Erie Railroad’s signaling tree.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 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

For this reason many scholars, once they have identified the sources that are key to their research, are converting them to machine-readable form.

From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress