English
Etymology 1
From key (“lock opener”) + card (“piece of plastic”).
Noun
keycard (plural keycards)
- A usually plastic card which stores a digital signature that is used to operate an electronic access control lock.
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Translations
plastic card
- Armenian: քարտ-բանալի (kʻart-banali)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 門卡 / 门卡 (ménkǎ), 房卡 (zh) (fángkǎ)
- Danish: nøglekort (da) n
- Dutch: sleutelkaart m or f
- Esperanto: ŝlosilkarto
- Finnish: avainkortti
- German: (literally) Schlüsselkarte (de) f, Pass (de) m
- Hungarian: kulcskártya
- Japanese: カードキー (kādokī)
- Korean: 카드키 (kadeuki)
- Latin: (literally, card for access) chartula ad accessum
- Macedonian: клуч-картичка f (kluč-kartička)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nøkkelkort n
- Nynorsk: nykelkort n, nøkkelkort n
- Spanish: tarjeta de acceso f
- Swedish: nyckelkort (sv) n
- Thai: คีย์การ์ด (th) (keykhard)
- Turkish: giriş kartı (tr), anahtar kart
- Vietnamese: thẻ khoá, thẻ từ
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Etymology 2
From key (“important”) + card (“playing card”).
Noun
keycard (plural keycards)
- (bridge) In Roman keycard Blackwood, an ace of any suit or the king of trumps.
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