punched card

1. 1.

   a card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes

   Synonymspunch cardHollerith card

   Broadercard

Questions about punched card

What does punched card mean?

punched card means "a card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes".

What is another word for punched card?

Close synonyms include punch card, Hollerith card. 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 punched card a common word?

punched card 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.