Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word COMPUTER

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Definitions of COMPUTER

1. (now, rare, chiefly, historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. [from 17th c.]
2. 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. [from 20th c.]
3. (intransitive) To use a computer.
4. (transitive) To send via computer.
5. (transitive) To transfer onto a computer; to computerize.

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Examples of Using COMPUTER in a Sentence

• The set of available punctuation had significant impact on the syntax of computer languages and text markup.
• Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
• Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.
• He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer.
• The analytical engine was a proposed digital mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage.
• The idea of starting a company and selling the computer came from Wozniak's friend and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
• The ABC's priority is debated among historians of computer technology, because it was neither programmable, nor Turing-complete.
• Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design.
• In algorithmic information theory (a subfield of computer science and mathematics), the Kolmogorov complexity of an object, such as a piece of text, is the length of a shortest computer program (in a predetermined programming language) that produces the object as output.
• In computer graphics, alpha compositing or alpha blending is the process of combining one image with a background to create the appearance of partial or full transparency.
• In computer science, an array is a data structure consisting of a collection of elements (values or variables), of same memory size, each identified by at least one array index or key.
• The Acorn Electron (nicknamed the Elk inside Acorn) was a lower-cost alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also developed by Acorn Computers, to provide many of the features of that more expensive machine at a price more competitive with that of the ZX Spectrum.
• AppleTalk is a discontinued proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers.
• The Apple III (styled as apple ///) is a business-oriented personal computer produced by Apple Computer and released in 1980.
• In computer science, an AVL tree (named after inventors Adelson-Velsky and Landis) is a self-balancing binary search tree.
• The Aster CT-80 is a 1982 personal computer developed by the small Dutch company MCP (later renamed to Aster Computers), was sold in its first incarnation as a kit for hobbyists.
• ABCD (add, browse, change, delete) a variation of create, read, update and delete in computer programming.
• The Amstrad CPC (short for "Colour Personal Computer") is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990.
• In computer science, the analysis of algorithms is the process of finding the computational complexity of algorithms—the amount of time, storage, or other resources needed to execute them.
• In 1984, as a result of the video game crash of 1983, the assets of the home console and computer divisions of the original Atari Inc.

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