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A computerized test requiring the human user to perform a task deemed to be difficult to automate, such as entering a displayed series of distorted characters or describing images, to demonstrate that they are a human and not a computer program.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Alternative letter-case form of CAPTCHA.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Coined by a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 as a loose acronym of “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Amharic:
ካፕቻ
(kapča)
— computerized test
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Chinese Mandarin:
驗證碼 /验证码
(yànzhèngmǎ)
— computerized test
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Dutch:
captcha
— computerized test
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French:
CAPTCHA
— computerized test
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French:
Captcha
— computerized test
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Galician:
CAPTCHA
— computerized test
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German:
Captcha
— computerized test
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German:
rarely CAPTCHA
— computerized test
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Hebrew:
קאפצ׳ה
— computerized test
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Korean:
캡차
(kaepcha)
— computerized test
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Korean:
보안 문자
(boan munja)
— computerized test
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Polish:
CAPTCHA
— computerized test
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Russian:
ка́пча
(kápča)
— computerized test
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Tamil:
காப்ச்சா
(kāpccā)
— computerized test
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Thai:
แคปต์ชา
— computerized test
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Tigrinya:
ካፕቻ
(kapča)
— computerized test
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Turkish:
CAPTCHA
— computerized test
