"peekaboo card" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: peekaboo cards [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} peekaboo card (plural peekaboo cards)
  1. (computing, historical) A kind of punch card that could be used to find records matching several categories by aligning cards for the records and retaining those where a hole could be seen all the way through the stack of cards. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-peekaboo_card-en-noun-MjT07Naz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Inflected forms

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