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card reader

noun

  1. a device, no longer widely used, for reading information on a punched card and transferring it to a computer Compare card punch
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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He recently began accepting payments through a credit card reader for the first time.

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The worker presumably slipped your card into a bogus card reader and charged you $1,500 just as you were rushing to return your rental car and catch a flight out of the country, knowing you were unlikely to report the crime to Mexican authorities.

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Professor Frank Marken, lead author of the study at the University of Bath, said: "Just as your contactless credit card doesn't need an external power source to work because the proximity of the card reader is enough to power it -- in a similar way, this sensor could create a small, measurable electrical current when lactate binds to it."

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Sydney took a deep breath and pressed the ID against the electronic card reader.

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Once again Sydney held her breath as she pressed the ID against the card reader, and once again they were rewarded with the click of a door unlocking.

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