contactless
contactless — 形容詞
- contactlesspositive
- more contactlesscomparative
- most contactlesssuperlative
1. used for a way of paying where you hold a card, phone, or watch near a reader in
感應式
把卡或手機靠近機器付款的
used for a way of paying where you hold a card, phone, or watch near a reader instead of putting it into the machine
Maeve used her contactless card to buy coffee before work.
Maeve 上班前用感應卡買了咖啡。
collocation: contactless card
At the station, Gabriel made a contactless payment for his train ticket.
在車站，Gabriel 用感應支付買了火車票。
collocation: contactless payment
The bakery's contactless reader stopped working during the lunch rush.
那家麵包店的感應讀卡機在午餐尖峰時段故障了。
Only contactless payments were allowed at the food stalls tonight.
今晚美食攤位只收感應付款。
When Imran forgot his wallet, he paid for lunch with his contactless watch.
Imran 忘了帶錢包時，就用感應手錶付了午餐錢。
- tap-to-pay
more informal and consumer-facing; often names the feature or action rather than describing the card or reader itself
- NFC-enabled
more technical; used for devices that support the short-range technology behind many contactless payments
- chip-and-PIN
requires inserting the card and entering a code instead of tapping near the reader
用法筆記
Usually modifies nouns such as card, payment, reader, or watch. In everyday use it most often describes paying by tapping a card, phone, or wearable near a machine.