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Computer   /kəmpjˈutər/   Listen
Computer

noun
1.
A machine for performing calculations automatically.  Synonyms: computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system.
2.
An expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines).  Synonyms: calculator, estimator, figurer, reckoner.



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"Computer" Quotes from Famous Books



... imagination. For Vye's imagination had buoyed him first through the drab existence in a State Child's Creche, then through a state-found job which he had lost because he could not adapt to the mechanical life of a computer tender, and had been an anchor and an escape when he had sunk through the depths of the port to the last refuge in ...
— Star Hunter • Andre Alice Norton

... console seat, he flipped the switch that would connect him with Systems Control Officer Bessandra Khamar at the console of the ship's big computer, acronymically ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond

... questioned. "We ought to make this automatic." He grinned. "Giant computer ... can see it now: the brain comes alive, tries to ...
— Question of Comfort • Les Collins

... "base" of the e-text. The scanned, proofread text was computer-checked against the text of the Bell edition, and differences were in turn checked against page images of the printed books. Where appropriate, the text was checked against one or more versions of the Latin original. Most differences ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso



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