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computator

computator noun: a person who performs computations.

Noun

computator (plural computators)

  1. (archaic) A person who performs computations.
    • But this is an advantage not to be had by the biographer in this planet;—in the planet Mercury (belike) it may be so, if not better still for him;——for there the intense heat of the country, which is proved by computators, from its vicinity to the sun, to be more than equal to that of red-hot iron...1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXIII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC
  2. (archaic) A mechanical device that performs computation.
  3. (humorous) Synonym of computer (“electronic device”).
    Synonyms:
    computer

Synonyms of computator

Forms of computator

pluralcomputators

Questions about computator

What does computator mean?
Computator means a person who performs computations.
What part of speech is computator?
Computator is a noun.
What is the plural of computator?
The plural of computator is computators.

Words near computator in the dictionary

  1. computationist
  2. computationists
  3. computations
  4. computative
  5. computativeness
  6. computator
  7. computators
  8. compute
  9. computed
  10. computed axial tomography
  11. computed tomographies

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