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electro-mechanical computer

electro-mechanical computer is the alternative form of electromechanical computer.

Meaning of electromechanical computer

Noun

electromechanical computer (plural electromechanical computers)

  1. An early type of computer that used electromagnetic relays.
    • In 1937, Howard Aiken, a mathematician at Harvard University, developed the idea for a general-purpose electromechanical computer, the Harvard Mark I.

Forms of electro-mechanical computer

pluralelectro-mechanical computers

Questions about electro-mechanical computer

What is electro-mechanical computer the alternative form of?
Electro-mechanical computer is the alternative form of electromechanical computer.

Words near electro-mechanical computer in the dictionary

  1. electro-lethaler
  2. electro-magnet
  3. electro-magnetics
  4. electro-magnets
  5. electro-mechanical
  6. electro-mechanical computer
  7. electro-mechanical computers
  8. electro-motion
  9. electro-optic
  10. electro-optical
  11. electro-optics

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