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computerlore

computerlore noun: the knowledge, teaching, study, science, or legend surrounding computers.

Noun

computerlore (uncountable)

  1. The knowledge, teaching, study, science, or legend surrounding computers.
    • Modern communication methods have already produced a whole body of 'screenlore' or 'computerlore' and 'Netlore'.1997, Reseaux, volume 5, page 116
    • This lack of motivation in studying the use of folklore in burgeoning technology could conceivably rest within the ideologies bestowed upon folklore trainees prior the advent of the Internet and computerlore.2014, Trevor J. Blank, Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Folklore and the Internet

Forms of computerlore

alternative formcomputer lore

Origin of computerlore

From computer + lore, and/or possibly from a blend of computer + folklore.

Questions about computerlore

What does computerlore mean?
Computerlore means the knowledge, teaching, study, science, or legend surrounding computers.
What part of speech is computerlore?
Computerlore is a noun.

Words near computerlore in the dictionary

  1. computerizes
  2. computerizing
  3. computerland
  4. computerless
  5. computerlike
  6. computerlore
  7. computernik
  8. computerniks
  9. computerologist
  10. computerologists
  11. computerology

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