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See also:Computerandcompùter

English

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 Computer on Wikipedia
 Computer (occupation) on Wikipedia
 Mental calculator (human computer) on Wikipedia
Humancomputers at NASA'sJet Propulsion Laboratory (1955).

Etymology

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    Fromcompute +-er.Doublet ofcantore,counter, andkontor. First sense first appears c. 1613 in the works of the poetRichard Brathwait. Second sense first appears c. 1897 in the magazineEngineering.

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    computer (pluralcomputers)

    1. (now rare, chiefly historical) Apersonemployed to performcomputations; one whocomputes.[from 17th c.]
      • 1613,Richard Brathwait,The Yong Mans Gleanings‎[1],page 1:
        I haue read the truestcomputer 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.
      • 1674, “To the Guardian-Angel”, inReflexions upon the Devotions of the Roman Church, London:Richard Royston,page419:
        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.
      • 1927,J. B. S. Haldane,Possible Worlds and Other Essays‎[2], London:Chatto & Windus, page173:
        Only a few years ago Mr. Powers, an Americancomputer, disproved a hypothesis aboutprime numbers which had held the field for more than 250 years.
      • 2001, Michael L. overton,Numerical Computing with IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic, SIAM, page 1:
        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 wordcomputer referred to a person, and those group calculations may be viewed as the early steps of parallel computing.
      • 2003,Bill Bryson,A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page116:
        One Harvardcomputer, 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.
      Synonyms:computator,mental calculator,human calculator
      Hyponym:computress
      1. (by restriction, chiefly historical) Amalecomputer.
        Coordinate term:(female)computress
    3. Aprogrammable electronicdevice that performsmathematicalcalculations andlogicaloperations, especially one that canprocess,store andretrieve large amounts ofdata 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.[from 20th c.]
      Synonyms:processor,(informal)'puter,(slang)box,machine,calculator;see alsoThesaurus:computer
      Hyponyms:desktop,laptop,portable computer,stored-program computer
      I spend around 6 hours a day at thecomputer.
      As well as saving the photos on mycomputer, I have them backed up on aUSB drive.
      David is acomputer expert.
      Janet works at thecomputer store.

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    programmable electronic device

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    programmable electronic device
    person

    Verb

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    computer (third-person singular simple presentcomputers,present participlecomputering,simple past and past participlecomputered)(rare, nonstandard)

    1. (intransitive) To use a computer.
      • 1995 December 31, Roxanne Coyle, “B'days”, inbit.listserv.words-l‎[3] (Usenet):
        Cool he wascomputering, though. My dad, who is only in his 60's (mom too) thinks he is too busy to get connected to the internet. Oh well. More bandwidth for the rest of us, huh?
      • 2004,The World According to Mimi Smartypants, London:HarperCollinsEntertainment,→ISBN,page36:
        I don't know if you have the same violent mood-swing issues that I do, but I was bustling around the house feeling very useful and good, and then I was sitting herecomputering for a while, and suddenly it was like a giant butterfly net scooped me up and threw me into an old mayonnaise jar,[…]
      • 2017 May 16, Alyssa Shelasky, “What I Discovered When I Outsourced My Back Pain”, inNew York Magazine‎[4], New York, N.Y.:New York Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2023-01-31:
        I'm constantlycomputering, schlepping, stressing, and hauling ass like the rest of us. We are New Yorkers.
      • 2019 December 20, “Finding Mr. Right”, inHarley Quinn, season 1, episode 4, spoken byHarley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco):
        Yeah, you saw what he could do when he flips out. I mean, how am I going to say no to that? Plus, he doescomputer good.
    2. (transitive) To send via computer.
      • 1988, Marcel Montecino,The Crosskiller, New York, N.Y.:Arbor House;William Morrow,→ISBN,page351:
        They had immediatelycomputered the description out to the scores of law enforcement agencies in Southern California.
      • 2001, Will Kingdom,Mean Spirit, London […]:Bantam Press,→ISBN,page428:
        'Nah. It was him hated it more than me. Fish out of water. Cops watching every move he makes. Memos about himcomputered to every nick in the land. He was too innocent for this hi-tech world, Bobby. Would've been back inside in no time at all.'
    3. (transitive) To transfer onto a computer; tocomputerize.
      • 1972 March 20, Benny L. Kass, quotee,U.S. Government Information Policies and Practices: Administration and Operation of the Freedom of Information Act, Washington, D.C.:U.S. Government Printing Office,page1425:
        I know there are storage warehouses in New York and Virginia and all over the place, St. Louis, and many other places, that keep these things. I think this is a very fertile area for this committee, and perhapscomputering it, or microfilm preservation, or things of that sort.
      • 1983, H. Ahrendt, N. Clauer, J. C. Hunziker, K. Weber, “Migration of Folding and Metamorphism in the Rheinische Schiefergebirge Deduced from K-Ar and Rb-Sr Age Determinations”, inIntracontinental Fold Belts: Case Studies in the Variscan Belt of Europe and the Damara Belt in Namibia, Berlin […]:Springer-Verlag,→DOI,→ISBN,page336:
        Our sincere thanks are due to Antje Reuter, Jens Adam and Uwe Horstmann forcomputering the manuscript and Ralph Phillips and Kirsten Techmer for proof reading it.
      • 1988, Shimon Applebaum, “Foreward”, inJudaea in Hellenistic and Roman Times, Leiden […]:E. J. Brill,→ISBN,unnumbered page:
        It is also a pleasure to recommend the skill of Irit Markan who carried out the work of 'computering' the text, and of Ivor Ludlam who bore the labour of proof reading—both the English and the Greek.
      • 2010 November 21, Burr, “MFW has been milked dry”, inmisc.fitness.weights‎[5] (Usenet):
        I have 30 years worth of logs some place and they have beencomputered the last few years and the last few years I think I have posted them to the sites I hang out on.

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    Danish

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed fromEnglishcomputer.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): [kʰʌmˈpʰj̊uːd̥ɐ],[kʰʌmˈpʰj̊uːtˢɐ]

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    computer c (singular definitecomputeren,plural indefinitecomputere)

    1. computer (machine)

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    Declension ofcomputer
    common
    gender    		singularplural
    indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
    nominativecomputercomputerencomputerecomputerne
    genitivecomputerscomputerenscomputerescomputernes

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishcomputer.

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    computer m (pluralcomputers,diminutivecomputertje n)

    1. computer
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    See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

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    computer

    1. inflection ofcomputeren:
      1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
      2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
      3. imperative

    French

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed fromLatincomputāre(“to compute, sum up”). See also the doubletscompter andconter.

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      computer

      1. (archaic, rare) tocompute
        • 1802,François-René de Chateaubriand,Génie du christianisme:
          Quant aux ères, ici on compte par l’année de la création, là par olympiade, par la fondation de Rome, par la naissance de Jésus-Christ, par l’époque d’Eusèbe, par celle des Séleucides, celle de Nabonassar, celle des martyrs. Les Turcs ont leur hégire, les Persans leur yezdegerdic.On compute encore par les éres julienne, grégorienne, ibérienne et actienne.
          As the eras, here they compute by the year of the creation, there by olympiads, by the foundation of Rome, by the birth of Christ, by the epoch of Eusebius, by that of Seleucids, of Nabonassar, of the Martyrs. The Turks have their hegira, the Persians their yezdegerdie. The Julian, Gregorian, Iberian and Actian eras,are alsoemployed in computation.

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      Conjugation ofcomputer(see alsoAppendix:French verbs)
      infinitivesimplecomputer
      compoundavoir + past participle
      present participle orgerund1simplecomputant
      /kɔ̃.py.tɑ̃/
      compoundayant + past participle
      past participlecomputé
      /kɔ̃.py.te/
      singularplural
      firstsecondthirdfirstsecondthird
      indicativeje (j’)tuil, elle, onnousvousils, elles
      (simple
      tenses)      		presentcompute
      /kɔ̃.pyt/      		computes
      /kɔ̃.pyt/      		compute
      /kɔ̃.pyt/      		computons
      /kɔ̃.py.tɔ̃/      		computez
      /kɔ̃.py.te/      		computent
      /kɔ̃.pyt/
      imperfectcomputais
      /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/      		computais
      /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/      		computait
      /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/      		computions
      /kɔ̃.py.tjɔ̃/      		computiez
      /kɔ̃.py.tje/      		computaient
      /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/
      past historic2computai
      /kɔ̃.py.te/      		computas
      /kɔ̃.py.ta/      		computa
      /kɔ̃.py.ta/      		computâmes
      /kɔ̃.py.tam/      		computâtes
      /kɔ̃.py.tat/      		computèrent
      /kɔ̃.py.tɛʁ/
      futurecomputerai
      /kɔ̃.py.tʁe/      		computeras
      /kɔ̃.py.tʁa/      		computera
      /kɔ̃.py.tʁa/      		computerons
      /kɔ̃.py.tʁɔ̃/      		computerez
      /kɔ̃.py.tʁe/      		computeront
      /kɔ̃.py.tʁɔ̃/
      conditionalcomputerais
      /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/      		computerais
      /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/      		computerait
      /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/      		computerions
      /kɔ̃.py.tə.ʁjɔ̃/      		computeriez
      /kɔ̃.py.tə.ʁje/      		computeraient
      /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/
      (compound
      tenses)      		present perfectpresent indicative ofavoir + past participle
      pluperfectimperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle
      past anterior2past historic ofavoir + past participle
      future perfectfuture ofavoir + past participle
      conditional perfectconditional ofavoir + past participle
      subjunctiveque je (j’)que tuqu’il, qu’elleque nousque vousqu’ils, qu’elles
      (simple
      tenses)      		presentcompute
      /kɔ̃.pyt/      		computes
      /kɔ̃.pyt/      		compute
      /kɔ̃.pyt/      		computions
      /kɔ̃.py.tjɔ̃/      		computiez
      /kɔ̃.py.tje/      		computent
      /kɔ̃.pyt/
      imperfect2computasse
      /kɔ̃.py.tas/      		computasses
      /kɔ̃.py.tas/      		computât
      /kɔ̃.py.ta/      		computassions
      /kɔ̃.py.ta.sjɔ̃/      		computassiez
      /kɔ̃.py.ta.sje/      		computassent
      /kɔ̃.py.tas/
      (compound
      tenses)      		pastpresent subjunctive ofavoir + past participle
      pluperfect2imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle
      imperative–tu–nousvous–
      simple—compute
      /kɔ̃.pyt/      		—computons
      /kɔ̃.py.tɔ̃/      		computez
      /kɔ̃.py.te/      		—
      compound—simple imperative ofavoir + past participle—simple imperative ofavoir + past participlesimple imperative ofavoir + past participle—
      1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen.
      2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
      past historic → present perfect
      past anterior → pluperfect
      imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
      pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

      (Christopher Kendris [1995],Master the Basics: French, pp.77,78,79,81).

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      Italian

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      Etymology

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      Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishcomputer.

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      Noun

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      computer m (invariable)

      1. computer (calculating device)
        Synonyms:calcolatore,elaboratore

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      1. ^computer inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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      computer

      1. first-personsingularpresentpassivesubjunctive ofcomputō

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      Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishcomputer.

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      computer n (pluralcomputere)

      1. computer
        Synonyms:calculator,ordinator

      Declension

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      Declension ofcomputer
      singularplural
      indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
      nominative-accusativecomputercomputerulcomputerecomputerele
      genitive-dativecomputercomputeruluicomputerecomputerelor
      vocativecomputerulecomputerelor

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      Borrowed fromEnglishcomputer.

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      computer m (pluralcomputers)

      1. computer
        Synonym:calculater
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