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adjective
Designating a device which detects or reads data in the form of a sequence of marks.
Such devices originally used electrically conducting marks made by hand on cards with a pencil, although photoelectric methods are now more commonly used.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Journal of the American Statistical Association. From mark + sensing, present participle of sense.
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