computers

Noun

computer (plural computers)

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.
   • Meronyms: processor, microprocessor, CPU

   Synonyms:

   'puter, box

2. (historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
   • 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.1613, Richard Brathwait, The Yong Mans Gleanings, page 1

   Synonyms:

   computator, mental calculator, human calculator

   1. (historical, by restriction) A male computer.
      • Coordinate term: (female) computress

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