Keypunch

Definitions

1. 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.
2. An electric machine with a keyboard that has the same function.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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