Definition of Punch card

1. Noun. A card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes.

Exact synonyms: Hollerith Card, Punched Card
Generic synonyms: Card

Definition of Punch card

1. Noun. A card that can have holes or notches cut in it, especially one for storing data, that can be sorted according to combinations of holes present or absent. ¹

2. Noun. (computing) Such a card, the size of a US dollar bill, having 80 columns of 12 rows used in early mainframe computers. ¹

3. Noun. A card given to a customer and punched with a hole at each purchase, allowing a reward to be claimed when fully punched. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Punch Card

punced
puncept
puncepts
punces
punch
punch-drunk
punch-up
punch-ups
punch above one's weight
punch bag
punch below one's weight
punch bowl
punch bowl waterfall
punch bowl waterfalls
punch buggy
punch card
punch cards
punch clock
punch clocks
punch drunk
punch fisted
punch fisting
punch fists
punch in
punch line
punch lines
punch list
punch lists
punch out

Literary usage of Punch card

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1910)
"punch card Reports.—Daily cost reports are best made on forms or blanks, and these forms are preferably cards In which the blank spaces are marked either in ..."

2. Business Costs by De Witt Carl Eggleston, Frederick Bertrand Robinson (1921)
"cation in connection with handling all sorts of cost records, and so the punch-card system will be explained somewhat in detail. ..."

3. Construction Cost Keeping and Management: A Treatise for Engineers by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1922)
"Some ingenuity is required to design a punch card for this purpose, ... Figure 9 shows a punch card (for a rock channeling gang) that provides for 17 men in ..."

4. Cost Keeping and Management Engineering: A Treatise for Engineers by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1909)
"punch card Showing Time and Occupation of Each Member of a Gang. ... Some ingenuity is required to design a punch card for this purpose, without making the ..."

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