magnetic stripe

1. 1.

   a short strip of magnetic tape attached to a credit card or debit card; it contains data that will tell a reading device who you are and what your account number is, etc.

   Broadermagnetic tape

   Part ofcredit carddebit card

Questions about magnetic stripe

What does magnetic stripe mean?

magnetic stripe means "a short strip of magnetic tape attached to a credit card or debit card; it contains data that will tell a reading device who you are and what your account number is, etc.".

Is magnetic stripe a common word?

magnetic stripe 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.