单词 | pre-punch |
释义 | pre-punchv. transitive. To punch holes in (a card, material, etc.) in advance; to punch data on to (a tape, card, disc, etc.) prior to use. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > punch [verb (transitive)] hole1911 pre-punch1947 overpunch1973 keypunch1975 1947 Nevada State Jrnl. 20 Nov. 11/1 Al Masters, director of athletics, ordered all the 88 bandsmen's [admission] cards to be pre-punched. 1965 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 272 1211/2 The clerk..obtained a deck of data-processing cards that had been prepunched with the patient's file number. 1968 Statistician 18 405 Other common-sense checks which might be built in to a system of data collection and processing might lie along the lines of zoning a recording code..or pre-punching data tapes with block-end characters at standard intervals. 1995 Bobbin (Nexis) Apr. 112 His invention eliminated the need to sew or pre-punch the leather when attaching shoe buttons. 2000 Publishing & Production Executive (Nexis) 1 July 39 The devices pre-punch plates with standard and custom pin-register systems. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1947 |
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