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Machine-readable medium and data
Medium capable of storing data in a format readable by a machine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In communications and computing, a machine-readable medium (or computer-readable medium) is a medium capable of storing data in a format easily readable by a digital computer or a sensor. It contrasts with human-readable medium and data.
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The result is called machine-readable data or computer-readable data, and the data itself can be described as having machine-readability.