Definition of "human-readable" [human-readable]

• See Chinese chive. (noun)

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• "But exporting from WordPress to a printable format such as PDF or some other human-readable format is not currently available."
• "I agree with this, AutoIt3 and later is much more human-readable."
• "While a variety of measures may protect access to that data, the data itself remains human-readable which means it is, for all intents and purposes, wide open."