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perforated tape

British  

noun

  1. a US name for punched tape

"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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Examiners at the National Inventor’s Council questioned the robustness and accuracy of the internal clockwork mechanism responsible for moving the perforated tape through the system, while the U.S.

From Scientific American Jan. 10, 2012

At 6:30 one morning a robot control, operated by perforated tape, was set in motion to trigger an explosion atop a 300-ft. latticed steel pylon in the North African desert.

From Time Magazine Archive

The I.T.U. has also rejected a publishers' request to compose stock tables automatically from perforated tape, at a substantial saving in labor cost.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Teletypesetter performs its operations by the use of a perforated tape rather than a photocell.

From Time Magazine Archive

One involves direct keyboard transmission; the other, the use at the sending end of a perforated tape capable of being run through a transmitting machine at high speed.

From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Towers, Walter Kellogg

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