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precomputers

precomputers adverb: before the availability of computers. Also the plural of precomputer.

Adverb

precomputers (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Before the availability of computers.
    • We worked with encrypted communications, in an atmosphere of secrecy with wheels and codes and what was then considered advanced data processing equipment (precomputers, of course).2012, Richard S. Monkman, Just Before Dark, →ISBN, page 41
    • There should be some kind of law that no one is allowed to have visions past the age of fifty, especially if said person used to be a car mechanic, precomputers.2013, George Singleton, “Man Oh Man—It’s Manna Man”, in Claude Lalumière, editor, Super Stories of Heroes & Villains, →ISBN, page 247

Also used as

precomputers is also the plural of precomputer.

Origin of precomputers

From pre- + computers.

Questions about precomputers

What does precomputers mean?
Precomputers means before the availability of computers.
What part of speech is precomputers?
Precomputers is an adverb.

Words near precomputers in the dictionary

  1. precomputational
  2. precomputations
  3. precompute
  4. precomputed
  5. precomputer
  6. precomputers
  7. precomputes
  8. precomputing
  9. preconceit
  10. preconceited
  11. preconceiting

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