hollerith

1. 1.

   United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)

   SynonymsHerman Hollerith

   Broaderinventor

Other forms of hollerith

plural

holleriths·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hollerith

What does hollerith mean?

hollerith means "United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)".

How many syllables are in hollerith?

hollerith has 3 syllables: hol-le-rith. The stress falls on "hol".

What is another word for hollerith?

Close synonyms include Herman Hollerith. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hollerith a common word?

hollerith is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.