computer
com·pu·ter
noun
1.
2.
an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
Origin
From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor. The sense referring to people first appears c. 1613 in the works of the poet Richard Brathwait. The sense referring to a machine first appears c. 1897 in the magazine Engineering.
Phrases
- computer architecture
- computer chess
- computer chip
- computer code
- computer conferencing
- computer-aided design
- computer-aided translation
- computer-based teaching
- data processing
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