Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
machine-readable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
data
▪ In addition, let us encourage colleagues to integrate machine-readable data and computer exercises into their thematic courses.
▪ The project is also incorporating existing machine-readable data files, relating to the nineteenth century, into its relational database.
▪ In an ideal world, the one body of machine-readable data would support these four very different processing aims.
▪ Only this will ensure that in future all machine-readable data can be exchanged across disciplinary and professional boundaries.
▪ Data archives also have an important role to play in setting standards for the documenting of machine-readable data.
▪ Finally, we need to ensure that the creators of machine-readable data upon whom we will increasingly rely adopt standard practices.
▪ Indeed, they already store numerous records generated by government agencies and have developed strong links with the producers of machine-readable data.
▪ In the case of the database project, it is doubtful that the machine-readable data would be of any use whatsoever.
dictionary
▪ A number of sources of semantic information are identified, the most notable of which being machine-readable dictionaries and text corpora.
▪ A definitive list of words was derived from a number of machine-readable dictionaries.
▪ It is suggested that semantic analysis using machine-readable dictionaries is restricted to their definitions and not their expansions.
▪ Others have attempted to extract information from pre-compiled sources such as machine-readable dictionaries and thesauri.
▪ Lexical, syntactic and semantic information needed for the system can be obtained from a machine-readable dictionary.
form
▪ The preservation of information captured in machine-readable form undoubtedly presents a host of problems to traditional archives.
▪ National and international bibliographic data can be fed into computers in machine-readable form.
▪ A machine-readable form available for the computer systems under 1f, ie, on cassette-tapes or discs. 4.
▪ In future an increasing amount of information will only be available to history students and teachers in machine-readable form.
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▪ A definitive list of words was derived from a number of machine-readable dictionaries.
▪ A number of sources of semantic information are identified, the most notable of which being machine-readable dictionaries and text corpora.
▪ In addition, let us encourage colleagues to integrate machine-readable data and computer exercises into their thematic courses.
▪ It is suggested that semantic analysis using machine-readable dictionaries is restricted to their definitions and not their expansions.
▪ It is therefore highly important to establish that the machine-readable product of Step 1 will be susceptible of all the necessary manipulation.
▪ Most user and system activity was captured and stored in machine-readable log files.
▪ The preservation of information captured in machine-readable form undoubtedly presents a host of problems to traditional archives.
▪ The project is also incorporating existing machine-readable data files, relating to the nineteenth century, into its relational database.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
machine-readable
machine-readable \ma*chin"e-read"a*ble\, a. (Computers) Readable by a machine; especially, available on a data-storage medium in a binary format that can be rapidly converted by standard input devices into data in a computer memory; as, the CIDE dictionary is a machine-readable dictionary.
Wiktionary
machine-readable
a. Capable of being read by a machine; especially by a computer system
Usage examples of "machine-readable".
NSA has also developed a technique that allows analysts with no prior knowledge of a language to quickly search machine-readable foreign language databases for keywords and topics.