Wiktionary
n. (context computing English) an early sequential digital storage medium consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being coded as a pattern of punched holes; originally used with teletype machines.
WordNet
n. a long narrow strip of paper
Usage examples of "paper tape".
One could enter or extract information not only with the standard keypunched computer card but also with punched paper tape, magnetic tape, a parallel printer, a typewriter, or a console.
He took the roll of gummed paper tape from the desk, tore off a two-foot length, crossed the room and pasted it across the door and jamb, sealing us in.
He walked three blocks to the second lamppost on a busy street and, passing it, he pulled a strip of white paper tape from his coat pocket and stuck it vertically on the metal post.
Instead of a platen, it has a large flat reel on it carrying a roll of narrow paper tape.
The subject parked the German sedan and jumped out, took just enough time to affix a strip of paper tape to a lamppost, and hopped back into his car.
The beggar has wrapped his legs and feet in brown paper tape, and the effect is startlingly medieval, as though someone has partially sculpted a knight from office materials.
With every twitch of the needle, something in the marble base clunked methodically, causing another quarter-inch of neatly perforated yellow paper tape to emerge from the marble base.
She reached into her purse and surreptitiously removed a length of paper tape.
After the Castle of the Water-gates, she came to awith a magnificent organ, powered by air pressure andby a bewildering grid of push-rods, which could playstored on a roll of paper tape with holes punched through it.