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Computer

A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.

Pronunciation: /kəmˈpjuː.tə/, /kəmˈpjʉw.tə/

What “Computer” means

Noun

  1. A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
  2. A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
  3. A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.

Verb

  1. To use a computer.
  2. To send via computer.
  3. To transfer onto a computer; to computerize.

Where the word comes from

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.

Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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