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How would you define "CAPTCHA"?


The original expansion was "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".


CAPTCHA: a computer program or system intended to distinguish human from machine input, typically as a way of thwarting spam and automated extraction of data from websites

I would say this Oxford Languages dictionary definition is close enough.




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