Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

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. (originally; now rare; chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
3. (intransitive) To use a computer.
4. (transitive) To send via computer.
5. (transitive) To transfer onto a computer; to computerize.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• computers
• computor
• computering
• computered

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Use computer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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