chad

noun

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   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.

   The small hinged discs of paper, called ‘chad’, remain attached to the body of the tape.

   Much of the controversy seems to revolve around ballot cards designed to be perforated by a stylus but which, either through error or deliberate omission, have not been perforated with sufficient precision for a machine to count them. In some cases a piece of the card—a chad—is hanging, say by two corners. In other cases there is no separation at all, just an indentation.

contraction

1. 1

   obsoleteI had

   Chad et in my meend, and zo chave still. Bet chawnt drow et out bevore tha begen'st agen, and than chell.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of ChadAlternative spelling of Chad (“alpha-male; a virile man”).

Forms

plural

chads