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Hollerith Card

A Hollerith card, also known as a punch card or IBM card, is a rectangular piece of stiff paper or thin cardboard with holes punched in specific positions, used for storing and processing data in early computing systems.

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1. Noun (General): A standardized card used for data input, storage, and processing in early computing systems. It contains holes representing data or instructions.

Example sentence: Please fill out the Hollerith card with the necessary information and feed it into the computer.

2. Noun (Specific): A Hollerith card specifically designed by Herman Hollerith, an American inventor, for use in tabulating machines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Example sentence: The Hollerith card revolutionized census-taking by speeding up data compilation and analysis.

3. Verb: To punch holes in a Hollerith card for coding or data representation purposes.

Example sentence: Before computerized systems, programmers had to manually hollerith the cards to input data.

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