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🖨️ A data recorder 👩‍💻 A data typist ⌨️ To enter data
keypunch

keypunch

8.8
A person who types data into a system using a machine that makes holes in cards or a keyboard
  • noun
  • /ˈkiːˌpʌnʧ/
  • Archaic
translation icon : operador de perforación
  • As a keypunch, she was responsible for accurately inputting large amounts of data every day.

Examples

  • Lisp empowered programmers to become individual artisans, a step up from cogs in an administrative machine that included computer operators, keypunch operators, system administrators, or managers who had to approve your use of computer time, etc.

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  • The keypunch operator quickly entered the data into the system for the monthly report.

  • In her role as a keypunch, he ensured that all information was properly recorded in the database.

Synonyms

typer
vskeypunch
1 3.4

A person who writes using a keyboard

focuses on paid work entering data into a computer system using machines
enterer
vskeypunch
7.9

A person who goes into a place or puts data into a system

refers specifically to a job entering system data using keyboard equipment

How Skilled

expert
3 3.5
keypunch
  • Archaic
8.8
trainee
50 2.4

Surface Forms

keypunch singular
keypunches plural

Morphology

keypunch = keypunch (semi-transparent) = key + punch

If the learner knows the verb 'keypunch', the noun meaning 'a person who does this job' is inferable, but agentive zero-derivation is less fully predictable than a regular suffix like '-er'.

Etymology

Keypunch also became a name for the person who worked at that machine, formed from key ('a button') and punch ('to make a hole'). That's why a keypunch was a worker who 'punched' data into cards by pressing keys.