machine-readable
adjective
ma·chine-read·a·ble
mə-ˈshēn-ˈrē-də-bəl 
: directly usable by a computer
machine-readable text
Examples of machine-readable in a Sentence
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ISPs will be allowed to provide links to price labels instead of displaying the full labels prominently on ordering pages and account portals, and will be allowed to stop making the price-label information available in machine-readable spreadsheets.
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Jon Brodkin,
ArsTechnica,
6 July 2026
Product catalogs need to be portable and machine-readable so an AI agent can resolve a SKU in seconds.
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Faustino Júnior,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
Traditionally, mathematicians have had to translate their theorems and proofs into this machine-readable format by hand, a laborious process known as formalization.
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Benjamin Skuse,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 June 2026
Alongside it would exist a machine-readable version in which every fact, precedent, legal principle, jurisdictional limitation and judicial holding is explicitly tagged and categorized.
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Sreedhar Potarazu,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
Natural language processing engines are increasingly deployed to interpret SIG codes and free-form dosing instructions, converting them into machine-readable fields that downstream systems can evaluate.
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Ethan Stone
june 3,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 June 2026
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Jon Brodkin,
ArsTechnica,
6 July 2026
Product catalogs need to be portable and machine-readable so an AI agent can resolve a SKU in seconds.
—
Faustino Júnior,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
Traditionally, mathematicians have had to translate their theorems and proofs into this machine-readable format by hand, a laborious process known as formalization.
—
Benjamin Skuse,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 June 2026
Alongside it would exist a machine-readable version in which every fact, precedent, legal principle, jurisdictional limitation and judicial holding is explicitly tagged and categorized.
—
Sreedhar Potarazu,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
Natural language processing engines are increasingly deployed to interpret SIG codes and free-form dosing instructions, converting them into machine-readable fields that downstream systems can evaluate.
—
Ethan Stone
june 3,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 June 2026
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“Machine-readable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machine-readable. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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