English Dictionary

chad

IPA（発音記号）

/t͡ʃæd/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc. / (countable) One of these pieces of paper.

日本語の意味

連続便用紙や投票用紙、紙テープ、パンチカードなどから、端を穿って小さな紙片として切り落とされた部分。

Technicians cleared the printer and disposed of the chad that had accumulated from days of printing.

技術者たちはプリンターを掃除し、数日分の印刷でたまったパンチくずを処分した。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.

The keypunch wasn't named after a Mr. Chadless; it was so named because, as expected, it punched tape while producing little or no chad.

意味（2）

(countable) One of these pieces of paper.

Prior devices of the type according to the present invention have been arranged to cut out the perforations completely at a single movement, thereby producing chads or waste material which often present difficult problems of disposal.

chad （ plural ）

chads （ plural ）