喜樂美語
  1. 1機器可讀的（不是「人讀起來輕鬆」）

    Machine-readable means the information is in a form a computer can take in and use, without a person typing it all again. A barcode, a QR code, the strip at the bottom of a passport photo page, or a clean data file can be machine-readable. An ordinary paragraph of English on paper is for human eyes. Though actually, readable here does not mean “easy for you to read.” A machine-readable file can look like a mess on the screen and still be perfect for a computer. People pair it with human-readable: one is for machines, one is for us.

組成machine + readable (able to be read). A hyphenated adjective.

同家族的字

  • readablethe second half, but here it is the machine that does the reading
  • machinethe first half
  • human-readablethe usual opposite: written for people’s eyes

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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

machine-readableadj

  • 1

    Capable of being read by a machine, especially a computer system.

    • This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology’s greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
  • 2

    computingengineeringmathematicsOrganised or formatted in a way that permits unambiguous interpretation by a program.

    • machine-readable dictionary
    • An ASCII text file may not be considered machine-readable if its contents do not follow a predictable, well-defined structure.

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