computer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: computers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: computor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: compooter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: processor, microprocessor, CPU
I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.
As well as saving the photos on my computer, I have them backed up on a USB drive.
David is a computer expert.
Janet works at the computer store.
gloss: A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
historical
examples: I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number: The daies of Man are threescore and ten.
By which manner of ſpeaking, this Propheteſs, who is ſo exact a Computer, would have us, I ſuppoſe, to conclude, that it would be a great miſtake to think that the number of Angels was either 9, or 11 for one of Men.
Only a few years ago Mr. Powers, an American computer, disproved a hypothesis about prime numbers which had held the field for more than 250 years.
During World War II, scientific laboratories had rooms full of people doing different parts of a complicated calculation using pencil and paper, slide rules, and mechanical calculators. At that time, the word computer referred to a person, and those group calculations may be viewed as the early steps of parallel computing.
One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today.
gloss: A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
historical
examples: Coordinate term: (female) computress
Synonyms: 'puter
box
calculator
computer
data processing machine
electronic brain
electronic computer
machine
number cruncher
thinking machine
Related words: computation
compute
computing
computus
software
Derived words: anticomputer
compucondria
compunications
compusex
computeracy
computer-aided design
computer-aided translation
computer architecture
computerate
computerbased
computer-based
computer-based teaching
computer chess
computer chip
computercide
computer code
computer conferencing
computer-controlled timing
computer core
computer dating
computerdom
computer engineer
computer engineering
computerese
computeresque
computerette
computerful
computer game
Computergate
computer graphics
computerholic
computer illiteracy
computer illiterate
computerisation
computerise
computerism
computerist
computeristic
computeritis
computerize
computer lab
computerland
computer language
computerless
computerlike
computer literacy
computer-literate
computer literate
computerlore
computer-mediated communication
computer model
computer network
computernik
computerologist
computerology
computer paper
computer person
computerphile
computerphobe
computerphobia
computerphobic
computerphone
computer processor
computer program
computer programming
computer programmer
computer says no
computer science
computer scientist
computer security
computer shop
computer simulation
computerspeak
computer system
computer technician
computer typesetting
computer virus
computer vision
computer vision syndrome
computerware
computery
computress
computronium
cyclocomputer
human-computer interaction
hypercomputer
intercomputer
macrocomputer
maxicomputer
mecomtronics
memcomputer
multicomputer
neurocomputer
noncomputer
phoneputer
precomputer
precomputers
telecomputer
transputer
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُحَاسِب
roman: muḥāsib
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܡܲܚܫܒ݂ܵܢܵܐ
roman: maḥšḇānā
lang: Bulgarian
word: изчисли́тел
roman: izčislítel
lang: Catalan
word: computador
lang: Catalan
word: calculador
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 計算者 /计算者
roman: jìsuànzhě
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 計算員 /计算员
roman: jìsuànyuán
lang: Czech
word: sčítač
lang: Dutch
word: rekenaar
lang: Esperanto
word: komputisto
lang: Estonian
word: arvutaja
lang: Finnish
word: laskija
lang: Greek
word: λογιστής
roman: logistís
lang: Greek
word: λογίστρια
roman: logístria
lang: Hungarian
word: fejszámoló
lang: Japanese
word: 計算手
roman: keisanshu
lang: Macedonian
word: пресметувач
roman: presmetuvač
lang: Manx
word: co-earrooder
lang: Middle English
word: countour
lang: Old English
word: rīmere
lang: Polish
word: rachmistrz
lang: Polish
word: kalkulator
lang: Polish
word: kalkulatorka
lang: Portuguese
word: computador
lang: Portuguese
word: calculista
lang: Russian
word: вычисли́тель
roman: vyčislítelʹ
lang: Russian
word: вычисли́тельница
roman: vyčislítelʹnica
lang: Russian
word: расчётчик
roman: rasčótčik
lang: Russian
word: расчётчица
roman: rasčótčica
lang: Russian
word: счётчик
roman: sčótčik
lang: Russian
word: счётчица
roman: sčótčica
lang: Sicilian
word: cuntaturi
lang: Sicilian
word: raggiuneri
lang: Spanish
word: computador
lang: Spanish
word: calculador
lang: Swedish
word: mänsklig beräknare
lang: Swedish
word: mänsklig räknare
lang: Swedish
word: räknare
lang: Swedish
word: beräknare
lang: Tagalog
word: taga-kompyut