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PRONUNCIATION OF KEY PUNCH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KEY PUNCH

noun
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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Key punch is a verb and can also act as a noun.
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WHAT DOES KEY PUNCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

key punch

Keypunch

A keypunch is a device for precisely punching holes into stiff paper cards at specific locations as determined by keys struck by a human operator. For Jacquard looms, the resulting punched cards contained the program directing a loom's operation. For Hollerith machines, other unit record machines, and computers, the resulting punched cards contained data to be processed by unit record machines and, later, computers equipped with punched card input/output devices. Early Hollerith keypunches were manual devices. Later keypunches were electromechanical devices which combined several functions in one unit. These often resembled small desks with keyboards similar to those on typewriters and were equipped with hoppers for blank cards and stackers for punched cards. Some keypunch models could print, at the top of a column, the character represented by the hole punched in that column. The small pieces punched out by a keypunch fell into a chad box, or chip box, or bit bucket.

Definition of key punch in the English dictionary

The definition of key punch in the dictionary is Also called: card punch. a device having a keyboard that is operated manually to transfer data onto punched cards, paper tape, etc. Other definition of key punch is to transfer onto punched cards, paper tape, etc, by using a key punch.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KEY PUNCH

key
key card
key drive
key fruit
key grip
key in
key light
key money
key move
key player
key ring
key signature
key stage
key up
key worker
key-bugle
key-man assurance
key-punch
keyboard
keyboard instrument

WORDS THAT END LIKE KEY PUNCH

bell punch
body punch
brunch
bunch
card punch
centre punch
counterpunch
key-punch
launch
lunch
milk punch
nail punch
outpunch
planter´s punch
prepunch
punch
rabbit punch
sucker punch
Suffolk punch
Sunday punch

Synonyms and antonyms of key punch in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «key punch» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KEY PUNCH

Find out the translation of key punch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of key punch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «key punch» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

关键的冲
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

punch clave
570 millions of speakers

English

key punch
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कुंजी पंच
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لكمة الرئيسية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ключ удар
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

soco chave
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কী মুষ্ট্যাঘাত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

poinçon clé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pukulan kekunci
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schlüssel Punsch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キーパンチ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

키 펀치
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tombol punch
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cú đấm chính
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முக்கிய பஞ்ச்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

की पंच
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Anahtar yumruk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pugno chiave
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

klucz poncz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ключ удар
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pumn cheie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γροθιά κλειδί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sleutel punch
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nyckel stansen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nøkkelen punsj
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about key punch

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KEY PUNCH»

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Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, ...
This caused the Tabulating Machine Company to buy Peirce's patent in 1922 and Tripp's patent two years later.45 The key punch was the second reverse salient of the Hollerith system, to use Thomas P. Hughes's concept. The problem was ...
Lars Heide, 2009
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The development of punch card tabulation in the Bureau of ...
CHANGES BETWEEN 1920 AND 1930 The 1930 key punch — First stage. — The major change in machinery and equipment between 1920 and 1930 was the adaptation of the population card to the commercial punch. This took place in ...
Leon Edgar Truesdell, 1965
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Computer Programming And Operating Guide
The punching is done by a special key punch type writer which is very similar to the ordinary typewriter. One vertical row (column) is meant for representing one character. The character may be any one of the 26 letters of Roman Script, ...
Shashank Johri
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Dictionary of Information Technology
A message encrypted with the public key can be decrypted only with the private key, and a message encrypted with the private key can be decrypted only with the public key. key punch operator A person who operates a key punch machine.
Ramesh Bangia, 2010
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Precipitation Analysis for Hydrologic Modelin
80-COLUMN CARDS After switching the power on, a MAG TAPE or ALT (key punch) mode is selected. For the operating procedures for transferring data to 80- column cards, the ALT mode is selected. The key punch machine is turned on with ...
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Getting New Technologies Together: Studies in Making ...
The tight labor market could not in any case provide that many key punch operators, but perhaps of greater salience to the members of the study group was that key punch technology was seen as "old fashioned." Punch cards and key punch ...
Cornelis Disco, Barend van der Meulen, 1998
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Applications of Quality Control in the Service Industries
Distributions of human variation in judgments and mechanical performance: 1.1 Distribution of tax assessments made on same property. 1 .2 Distribution of error rates made by key punch operators. 2. Comparative distributions: 2.1 Distribution  ...
A. C. Rosander, 1985
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Office Organisation And Management
Key punch machine. A key punch machine is used to punch the holes in the punched card. The data for punching the holes can be obtained from various documents such as purchase orders, invoices, payment vouchers, inventory reports, etc.
M.E. Thukaram Rao, 2000
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Webster's II New College Dictionary
A keyboard machine used to punch holes in cards or tapes for data -process ing systems. — vt. *J vi. -punched, -punch-ing, -punch*es. To process on a keypunch. — key 'punch 'er n. key signature n. Mus. The group of sharps or flats placed to ...
Houghton Mifflin Company, Webster, 1999
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Cincinnati Magazine
The local victim of the virus is Mrs. Jean Bailey, toiler turned boss of Bailey Key Punch Service, Inc. A former U.S. Government employee, Jean Bailey's story serves as an excellent example of what hard work, faith and a helping hand at the ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KEY PUNCH»

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Deaths Summary for Thursday, July 16, 2015
BATTEN, Penelope Suzanne, 59, of Dorchester, a data processor/key punch operator with Westvaco, teller with First National Bank of Holly Hill, ... «Charleston Post Courier, Jul 15»
2
Technological advancement: Sindh police to computerise crime …
The IG directed the members to draft recommendations for the appointment of 2,000 key punch operators to make the project successful. «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
3
A Cowboy's Faith: One transition quite costly
Secondly, computers work so fast, that one wrong key punch can completely destroy, alter or change meaning entirely. In days of manual ... «Osage County Online | Osage County News, Jul 15»
4
Doris G. O'Neal
She was a retiree from the Farm Bureau and later a retiree from Local Government as a key punch operator. This allowed her to maintain her ... «Columbia Daily Herald, Jun 15»
5
Region's fiber artists featured at quilt show
"I worked in the fledgling computer industry, first a key punch operator, on the old mainframes, the old IBM desktops and into the age of the first ... «Coeur d'Alene Press, Jun 15»
6
How Less Disclosure Affects Risk Perceptions
That's sort of the key punch line of the study: When you observe a firm scale back its disclosure, they're doing that for a reason. And investors ... «ValueWalk, Jun 15»
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The way we met: real-life love stories on Instagram
She was in the key punch department (they don't have those anymore) and I was in the blueprint department, so our paths would cross. «The New Daily, Jun 15»
8
Lila L. Blakely
She was a key punch operator for Iowa Public Service and at Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Western Contracting, and Mid-American Energy. «Sioux City Journal, Jun 15»
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The Way We Met: 7 Of The Most Heartwarming Love Stories On …
She was in the key punch department (they don't have those anymore) and I was in the blueprint department, so our paths would cross. «Marie Claire.co.uk, Jun 15»
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The Lemons Problem: How Less Disclosure Affects Risk Perceptions
That's sort of the key punch line of the study: When you observe a firm scale back its disclosure, they're doing that for a reason. And investors ... «Knowledge@Wharton, Jun 15»

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