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post-PC

post-PC adjective: after the decline of the personal computer in favour of mobile devices.

Adjective

post-PC (not comparable)

  1. After the decline of the personal computer in favour of mobile devices.
    • [Tim] Cook devoted the beginning of the event to talking about Apple's vision of a "post-PC" world, one in which your primary computer doesn't have a mouse or a keyboard. This chart shows the success of that vision. And this is just the beginning.2012 March 7, Alexis C. Madrigal, “The Single Chart That Proves Tim Cook Is Right About the Post-PC World”, in The Atlantic
  2. After the decline of political correctness.

Origin of post-PC

From post- + PC.

Questions about post-PC

What does post-PC mean?
Post-PC means after the decline of the personal computer in favour of mobile devices.
What part of speech is post-PC?
Post-PC is an adjective.

Words near post-PC in the dictionary

  1. post-pandemic
  2. post-partum
  3. post-partum depression
  4. post-partural
  5. post-party
  6. post-PC
  7. post-phenomenological
  8. post-phenomenologically
  9. post-phenomenology
  10. post-phlebitic
  11. post-phlebitic syndrome

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