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card

See expansion board, printed circuit board, magnetic stripe, punch card and HyperCard.

card1
1. 
a. short for playing card
b. (as modifier): a card game
c. (in combination): cardsharp
2. See compass card
3. Horse racing a daily programme of all the races at a meeting, listing the runners, riders, weights to be carried, distances to be run, and conditions of each race
4. short for printed circuit card See printed circuit See also cards
card2
(formerly) a machine or comblike tool for carding fabrics or for raising the nap on cloth
card [kärd]
(electronics)
A printed circuit board or other arrangement of miniaturized components that can be plugged into a computer or peripheral device.
1.card - A circuit board.
2.card - A punched card.
3.(hypertext)card - An alternative term for a node in a system (e.g. HyperCard, Notecards) in which the node size is limited.


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Rostov staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again lost.
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About a week or ten days after Miss Verinder had left us, one of my clerks entered the private room at my office, with a card in his hand, and informed me that a gentleman was below, who wanted to speak to me.
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At the same moment the servant appeared, and advanced to Julian, carrying a visiting card on his little silver tray.
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