Definition of "machine-readable" []

• Capable of being read by a computer. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Washington is home to servers where data and news providers aggregate key economic and corporate information and send it through computer programs to traders in what is called machine-readable news."
• "The New York-based company disclosed Monday a deal to buy RapiData LLC, a provider of so-called machine-readable news, which will see Nasdaq electronically pump U.S. government indicators and other economic data directly to the automated trading systems of customers."
• "ISBN (International Standard Book Number) A unique machine-readable identification number, which identifies any book unmistakably. 159 countries and territories are officially ISBN members."