keypunch
verbEtymology From key + punch.
1
To use such a device or machine
- Derived terms
- keypuncher
- Related terms
- Hollerith code
keypunch
nounEtymology From key + punch.
1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A mechanical device whose keys are pressed, individually or in combination, to punch holes in punched cards or paper tape that correspond to particular characters.
- In an admirable combination of the skills of the scientist and the sensitivity of the artist, he mapped hundreds of thousands of images through a keypunch data-processing system and then tried to understand the meanings of the patterns that emerged independent of his own classifications.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 107:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An electric machine with a keyboard that has the same function.