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smart card
noun
: a small plastic card that has a built-in microprocessor to store and process data and records
Examples of smart card in a Sentence
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The smart cards inserted into the readers used a code library that had yet to be patched against the Minerva attack.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 June 2023
Steve Weisman, a law and taxation lecturer at Bentley University, said the United States is one of the few countries that continues to use magnetic stripe cards, noting much of the world uses newer EMV smart cards that have computer chips with encrypted data.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
The Surface Laptop 6 for Business has an additional USB-C Thunderbolt 4 port and an optional smart card reader, but the screen bezels and overall design are very much the same as the Surface Laptop 5.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2024
However, for Android users, devices purchased outside of Japan don’t support the proper software to be used with Japanese smart cards.
—Christina Liao, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2023
Triggering the errors relied on techniques such as tampering with a computer’s power supply or shining a laser on a smart card.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
These smart cards are used by the military for identification; blanks, one participant reported, are stored around the country.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2016
Shipments from China to Russia of smart cards, light-emitting diodes, polysilicon, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and other goods have also risen, the firm said.
—Ana Swanson, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
Purchase a reloadable smart card at any Palm Beach County library, the Palm Tran office at 50 S. Military Trail in West Palm Beach, or at Paradise Pass kiosks and select retail locations listed on palmtran.org/paradise-pass.
—Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1980, in the meaning defined above
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“Smart card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smart%20card. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
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smart card
noun
: a small plastic card that has a tiny built-in computer chip to store and process data
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