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10 Language-to-English Dictionariescarte à puce
Pronunciation / Transliteration: kart a pys
"Vous pouvez utiliser votre carte à puce pour payer le bus."
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A pocket-sized plastic card with embedded integrated circuit chips that can process and store data, commonly used for financial transactions, identification, and public transit ticketing.
"Passengers can tap their smartcard at the station gates to pay for their train fare seamlessly." - 2
A contactless integrated circuit card used for electronic cash payments or access control.
"She loaded money onto her transit smartcard before boarding the bus."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the combination of 'smart' (originally meaning causing a sharp pain, evolving through intelligence to denote computer-controlled capability by the mid-20th century) and 'card' (from Old French 'carte', ultimately from Greek 'chartēs'). The term emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s with the invention of integrated circuit cards used for financial transactions and transit systems.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Smartcard" is said worldwide
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carte à puce
Transliteration: kart a pys
"Vous pouvez utiliser votre carte à puce pour payer le bus."
Chipkarte
Transliteration: ˈtʃɪpˌkaʁtə
"Die Chipkarte wird für den öffentlichen Nahverkehr genutzt."
smart card
Transliteration: smart card
"La smart card permette di accedere ai trasporti pubblici."
tarjeta inteligente
Transliteration: taɾˈxeta in.teˈli.ɣen.te
"Utilice su tarjeta inteligente para pasar por el torniquete."
cartão inteligente
Transliteration: kaɾˈtãw ĩ.te.liˈʒẽ.tʃi
"O cartão inteligente é usado para pagar a passagem de metro."
स्मार्ट कार्ड
Transliteration: smart kard
"यात्री मेट्रो में यात्रा करने के लिए स्मार्ट कार्ड का उपयोग करते हैं।"
智能卡
Transliteration: zhì néng kǎ
"乘客可以使用智能卡乘坐地铁。"
스마트카드
Transliteration: sumateu-kadeu
"대중교통을 이용할 때 스마트카드를 태그하세요."
交通系ICカード
Transliteration: kōtsūkei aishī kādo
"改札機に交通系ICカードをタッチしてください。"
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