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smart card

noun

a small plastic card embedded with a memory chip and often a microprocessor, used for financial transactions, identification, as a key, etc.

smart card

noun

a plastic card with integrated circuits used for storing and processing computer data Also calledlaser cardintelligent card

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Word History and Origins

Origin of smart card¹

First recorded in 1980–85

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Around 2000, a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated thin-film batteries—the kind deployed in small electronics like smart cards and pacemakers—that used solid-state lithium-metal technology.

From MIT Technology Review

The consumers buy a smart card (very similar to phone-cards).

From Project Gutenberg

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