Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being read by a computer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Computers) Readable by a machine
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
read by amachine ; especially by acomputer system
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suitable for feeding directly into a computer
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Examples
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Washington is home to servers where data and news providers aggregate key economic and corporate information and send it through computer programs to traders in what is called machine-readable news.
Wall Street to Link Up With Washington Donna Kardos Yesalavich 2011
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The New York-based company disclosed Monday a deal to buy RapiData LLC, a provider of so-called machine-readable news, which will see Nasdaq electronically pump U.S. government indicators and other economic data directly to the automated trading systems of customers.
Nasdaq Pushes Into Machine-Readable News Jacob Bunge 2011
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Institutional investors also incorporate machine-readable news into longer-range trading strategies and some conventional traders use the services to help manage risk.
Nasdaq Pushes Into Machine-Readable News Jacob Bunge 2011
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Extending CC approach beyond the CC license: standard contracts tilting towards sharing in human - and machine-readable form.
Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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They've done that by migrating their data to an open, machine-readable format.
Alexander Howard: USAID Goes FWD With Open Data and Open Government for Famine Aid Alexander Howard 2011
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Such machine-readable news is used by sophisticated trading firms that pull in signals from market prices and other sources to inform rapid-fire buying and selling of securities and derivatives contracts.
Nasdaq Pushes Into Machine-Readable News Jacob Bunge 2011
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The Semantic Web, paraphrased from a definition by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C, extends hyperlinked Web pages by adding machine-readable metadata about the Web page, including relationships across Web pages, thus allowing machine agents to process the hyperlinks automatically.
Steve Hamby: Top Three Technologies to Tame the Big Data Beast Steve Hamby 2011
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Major news providers Dow Jones and Thomson Reuters offer news products that archive and structure news to provide machine-readable feeds for use in trading algorithms.
Mary Bottari: Booya! Latest Wall Street Innovation -- Twitter Trading Mary Bottari 2011
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ISBN (International Standard Book Number) A unique machine-readable identification number, which identifies any book unmistakably. 159 countries and territories are officially ISBN members.
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Electronic trading firms want to defend against "tape bombs"—traders' slang for headlines that have the power to abruptly swing the market higher or lower in a nervous climate, according to Ryan Terpstra , chief executive of Selerity, which supplies machine-readable news.
Nasdaq Pushes Into Machine-Readable News Jacob Bunge 2011
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