单词 | magstripe |
释义 | magstripen.adj. A. n. A magnetic strip as a medium in which data may be stored, esp. as used on some swipe cards and cinema film; the medium itself. Cf. stripe n.3 1e. ΚΠ 1972 T. Miller ‘Cut! Print’ 99 Mag Stripe, the application of magnetic particles to one edge of a strip of film so that a magnetic recording can be made on it.] 1973 Banking Feb. 18/1 This ‘trigger’ is located on a magstripe, a strip of magnetic material on a plastic card. 1982 T. Barr Acting for Camera iv. xxvi. 170 The sound, which was recorded on tape in conjunction with the film, is transferred to magstripe, which is nothing more than blank film with a strip of one-quarter inch magnetic tape on it. 1993 M. Crichton Disclosure i. 84 By design, the passcards were featureless: just the blue DigiCom logo, a stamped serial number, and a magstripe on the back. B. adj. Relating to or containing a magnetic strip; (also) designating electronic devices involved in the encoding or reading of swipe cards with such a strip.A proprietary name in the United States. ΚΠ 1986 Today's Computers 8 Aug. 38/1 It takes only days after the installation of a mag-stripe system for ‘travel hackers’ to equip themselves with magnetic update devices. 1990 Supermarket News 23 Apr. 85/5 We're a small independent and we do data capture at our registers. It's a magstripe reader that we're running credit cards through. 1995 World Card Technol. Mag. Apr.–May 40/1 There are a variety of EFTPOS terminals in use around the world, ranging from the majority of magstripe authorisation terminals..to those that require tamper resistant modules as in electronic purse schemes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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