Key Card

Spanish translation: tarjeta de acceso, llave electrónica

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English term or phrase:key card
Spanish translation:tarjeta de acceso, llave electrónica
Entered by: Hardy Moreno

17:01 Feb 3, 2003
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / General
English term or phrase: Key Card
This is a key which like a credit card like the ones that you get when you check into a hotel. They don't give out keys anymore, in many places. Instead they give you a card to you slide into a slot, and the door becomes unlocked. What do I call those in Spanish?

This particular key card isn't for a motel room. It's to make barriers go up that block passage into a parking lot...

Thanks greatly!!!!
Hardy Moreno
Local time: 03:56
tarjeta de acceso / tarjeta electrónica
Explanation:
Pienso que la traducción debería ser distinta en función de si se trata de una tarjeta magnética, electrónica o de orificios perforados como las de los hoteles.

Pero imagino que una traducción adecuada sería "tarjeta de acceso" independientemente del medio de almacenamiento de la información del usuario.

¡Espero que te sirva!
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Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
Spain
Local time: 09:56
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6tarjeta de acceso / tarjeta electrónica
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
5 +2Tarjeta de acceso
Jorge Payan
5tarjeta codificada
dawn39 (X)
2 +1llave electrónica / tarjeta de acceso / tarjeta electrónica
elevaristo


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
tarjeta de acceso / tarjeta electrónica


Explanation:
Pienso que la traducción debería ser distinta en función de si se trata de una tarjeta magnética, electrónica o de orificios perforados como las de los hoteles.

Pero imagino que una traducción adecuada sería "tarjeta de acceso" independientemente del medio de almacenamiento de la información del usuario.

¡Espero que te sirva!

Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
Spain
Local time: 09:56
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 95

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Necarpi
3 mins
  -> Gracias María!

agree  María Eugenia Wachtendorff: Tarjeta de acceso, definitivamente.
8 mins
  -> ¡Gracias María!

agree  AlwaysMoving
16 mins
  -> Gracias "Always" :-)

agree  José Luis Villanueva-Senchuk (X)
26 mins
  -> Gracias mil José Luis.

agree  EDLING (X)
1 hr
  -> Gracias mil "EDLING"

agree  dawn39 (X)
1 hr
  -> Gracias "dawn39"
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Tarjeta de acceso


Explanation:
o tarjeta de autorización de acceso, si se quiere largo.


    experinecia como ingeniero
Jorge Payan
Colombia
Local time: 03:56
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Necarpi
1 min

agree  dawn39 (X)
1 hr
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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
llave electrónica / tarjeta de acceso / tarjeta electrónica


Explanation:
Sólo sé que así se utiliza en muchos hoteles (llave electrónica) y aparcamientos (tarjeta de acceso / tarjeta electrónica)

elevaristo

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Betina Frisone
9 hrs
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
tarjeta codificada


Explanation:
"Aparcamiento para vehículos dentro del Centro
Plazas de aparcamiento dentro del recinto, con acceso mediante **tarjeta codificada**"
Un saludo





    Reference: http://www.us.es/filosofia/pasyser.htm
dawn39 (X)
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 20
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