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

Recent Examples on the Web

It is won by structured, verifiable, machine-readable context—the facts about your products that an agent can check, cite and trust. — Haozhuang Dai, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

In formal verification, mathematicians task a computer with checking a machine-readable version of a proof. — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026

Those rules require generative AI providers to make synthetic output machine-readable and detectable. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026

Anthropic will add machine-readable watermarks to text generated by new Claude models starting August 2, 2026. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1958, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for machine-readable

• readable
• unreadable

Kids Definition

machine-readable

adjective

ma·​chine-read·​able

: directly usable by a computer

machine-readable text