Usually means: Data storage on perforated cards.
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  1. punch card: Merriam-Webster
  2. punch card: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. punch card: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. punch card: Collins English Dictionary
  5. punch card: Vocabulary.com
  6. punch-card: Wordnik
  7. punch card: Wiktionary
  8. punch card: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. punch card: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. punch card: Dictionary.com
  11. Punch card: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. punch card: Rhymezone
  13. punch card: FreeDictionary.org
  14. punch card: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. punch card: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. punch card: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. punch card: CCI Computer
  3. Punch-card, punch card: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (punch card)

noun:  A card that can have holes or notches cut in it, especially one for storing data, that can be sorted according to combinations of holes present or absent.
noun:  (computing, historical) Such a card, the size of a US dollar bill and having 80 columns of 12 rows, used in early mainframe computers.
noun:  A card given to a customer and punched with a hole at each purchase, allowing a reward to be claimed when fully punched.

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