Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Capable of being read by a computer.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Computers) Readable by a machine available on a data-storage medium in a binary format that can be rapidly converted by standard input devices into data in a computer memory.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. suitable for feeding directly into a computer
Examples
“Washington is home to servers where data and news providers aggregate key economic and corporate information and send it through computer programs to traders in what is called machine-readable news.”
The Wall Street Journal: Wall Street to Link Up With Washington
“The New York-based company disclosed Monday a deal to buy RapiData LLC, a provider of so-called machine-readable news, which will see Nasdaq electronically pump U.S. government indicators and other economic data directly to the automated trading systems of customers.”
The Wall Street Journal: Nasdaq Pushes Into Machine-Readable News
“ISBN (International Standard Book Number) A unique machine-readable identification number, which identifies any book unmistakably. 159 countries and territories are officially ISBN members.”
“The Semantic Web, paraphrased from a definition by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C, extends hyperlinked Web pages by adding machine-readable metadata about the Web page, including relationships across Web pages, thus allowing machine agents to process the hyperlinks automatically.”
The Huffington Post: Steve Hamby: Top Three Technologies to Tame the Big Data Beast
“Extending CC approach beyond the CC license: standard contracts tilting towards sharing in human - and machine-readable form.”
“Major news providers Dow Jones and Thomson Reuters offer news products that archive and structure news to provide machine-readable feeds for use in trading algorithms.”
The Huffington Post: Mary Bottari: Booya! Latest Wall Street Innovation -- Twitter Trading
“Electronic trading firms want to defend against "tape bombs"—traders' slang for headlines that have the power to abruptly swing the market higher or lower in a nervous climate, according to Ryan Terpstra , chief executive of Selerity, which supplies machine-readable news.”
The Wall Street Journal: Nasdaq Pushes Into Machine-Readable News
“Such machine-readable news is used by sophisticated trading firms that pull in signals from market prices and other sources to inform rapid-fire buying and selling of securities and derivatives contracts.”
The Wall Street Journal: Nasdaq Pushes Into Machine-Readable News
“Institutional investors also incorporate machine-readable news into longer-range trading strategies and some conventional traders use the services to help manage risk.”
The Wall Street Journal: Nasdaq Pushes Into Machine-Readable News
“They've done that by migrating their data to an open, machine-readable format.”
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