human-readable
Adjective
Meaning
(computing) That can be read by humans (as well as computers), such as a file format based on plain text.
Of writing: without excessive jargon.
This a human-readable summary of the Creative Commons license.
Examples
Ninety-five percent of all human-readable traffic over the net is spam, a figure virtually unchanged since the late noughties.
Captured information is decoded from raw digital form into a human-readable format that lets users easily review exchanged information.
Finally, from its beginnings, RTF has supported Microsoft OLE embedded objects and Macintosh Edition Manager subscriber objects, which are not human-readable.
Color bars with burnt-in timecode Burnt-in timecode (often abbreviated to BITC by analogy to VITC ) is a human-readable on-screen version of the timecode information for a piece of material superimposed on a video image.
Efficient sorting is important for optimizing the use of other algorithms (such as search and merge algorithms) which require input data to be in sorted lists; it is also often useful for canonicalizing data and for producing human-readable output.
; File addressable : Information is divided into files of variable length, and a particular file is selected with human-readable directory and file names.