punch card

Noun

 * 1) A card that can have holes or notches cut in it, especially one for storing data, that can be sorted according to combinations of holes present or absent.
 * 2)  Such a card, the size of a US dollar bill and having 80 columns of 12 rows, used in early mainframe computers.
 * 3) A card given to a customer and punched with a hole at each purchase, allowing a reward to be claimed when fully punched.
 * 1) A card given to a customer and punched with a hole at each purchase, allowing a reward to be claimed when fully punched.

Usage notes

 * Sometimes the blank card was called a, and became a only after holes had been punched in it.
 * Also see and.

Related terms

 * multipunch

Translations

 * Bulgarian: перфокарта
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 打孔卡
 * Czech: děrný štítek
 * Danish: hulkort
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: gataspjald
 * Irish: tollchárta
 * Italian: scheda perforata
 * Japanese: パンチカード
 * Portuguese: cartão perfurado
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бу̑шена̄ ка̀ртица
 * Roman: bȗšenā kàrtica
 * Swedish: