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