Example sentences for: machine-readable

How can you use “machine-readable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • My own observation is that Informal might be undergoing its own round of pejoration -- these things sometimes go in cycles -- and, in a reference book I recently completed, which will be published by Oxford University Press in the autumn of 1991, I have chosen to return to Colloq . As the book is in machine-readable form, should the publisher decide, in a generation's time, to switch back to Informal , the change can be readily accommodated by performing a simple substitution program on a computer, and all the Colloqs will become Infs before you know it.

  • As I have dealt mainly with texts that were in machine-readable form, I have been able to develop techniques for extracting an index from a text, especially if the text is consistently styled typographically.

  • As far as scanning goes, I have been shopping for a flatbed scanner because there are many sources I am now using that I should like to have in machine-readable form for sorting and other processing.

  • The names themselves, along with precise locational data and identification by type, have been painstakingly keyboarded into machine-readable form from the most detailed USGS topographic maps, the so-called 7.5-minute series.

  • It is a comfort to know that if my book still merits reprinting some decades hence, as it is in machine-readable form, the publishers need only write a short program indicating that informal be substituted for all occurrences of colloquial and, like magic, the switch will be effected.


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