Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

machine-readable

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables: ma-chine-read-able
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

adj

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

Example Sentences

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

Inflected Forms

more machine-readable (comparative) most machine-readable (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

human-readable

Questions

What does machine-readable mean?: Capable of being read by a machine, especially a computer system.

How to pronounce machine-readable

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