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

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

Whatever comes next earns per decision, per booking, on inventory exposed in machine-readable form. — Abhinav Sinha, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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. — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 6 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

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