Dictionary

punch card en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A card that can have holes or notches cut in it, especially one for storing data, that can be sorted according to combinations of holes present or absent.
2. (historical) A card that can have holes or notches cut in it, especially one for storing data, that can be sorted according to combinations of holes present or absent. ▸ Such a card, the size of a US dollar bill and having 80 columns of 12 rows, used in early mainframe computers.
   • Programming by typing C++ or Python yourself might eventually seem as ridiculous as issuing instructions in binary onto a punch card. 2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
3. A card given to a customer and punched with a hole at each purchase, allowing a reward to be claimed when fully punched.

Forms

Relateds

multipunch

Synonyms

punched card (card with holes or notches) · Hollerith card (card used in early mainframe computers) · punched card (card used in early mainframe computers) · index card (card with holes or notches)

Translations (21)

sv hålkort (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · de Lochkarte (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · lt perfokorta (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · bg перфокарта (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · pt cartão perfurado (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · cs děrný štítek (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · fi reikäkortti (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · hu lyukkártya (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · ro cartelă perforată (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · is gataspjald (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · it scheda perforata (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · ja パンチカード (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · sh бу̑шена̄ ка̀ртица (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · fr carte perforée (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · nl ponskaart (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · cmn 打孔卡 (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · sh bȗšenā kàrtica (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · da hulkort (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · ga tollchárta (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · ru перфока́рта (card with have holes or notches used for storing data) · pl karta dziurkowana (card with have holes or notches used for storing data)