SMART CARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smart card mean? 

• SMART CARD (noun)
  The noun SMART CARD has 1 sense:

1. a plastic card containing a microprocessor that enables the holder to perform operations requiring data that is stored in the microprocessor; typically used to perform financial transactions

  Familiarity information: SMART CARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMART CARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plastic card containing a microprocessor that enables the holder to perform operations requiring data that is stored in the microprocessor; typically used to perform financial transactions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("smart card" is a kind of...):

positive identification (evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance)

charge account credit; open-end credit; revolving credit (a consumer credit line that can be used up to a certain limit or paid down at any time)