computer
EnglishEdit
Human computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1955).
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəmˈpjuːtə/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /kəmˈpjutɚ/, [kəmˈpʰjuɾɚ]
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: com‧put‧er
- Rhymes: -uːtə(r)
NounEdit
computer (plural computers)
- (now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. [from 17th c.]
- 1613, Richard Brathwait, The Yong Mans Gleanings[1], page 1:
- 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.
- 1674, “To the Guardian-Angel”, in Reflexions upon the Devotions of the Roman Church, London: Richard Royston, page 419:
- By which manner of ſpeaking, this Propheteſs, who is ſo exact a Computer, would have us, I ſuppoſe, to conclude, that it would be a great miſtake to think that the number of Angels was either 9, or 11 for one of Men.
- 1927, J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Essays[2], London: Chatto & Windus, page 173:
- Only a few years ago Mr. Powers, an American computer, disproved a hypothesis about prime numbers which had held the field for more than 250 years.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 116:
- One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today.
- Hyponym: computress
- (by restriction, chiefly historical) A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.
- 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.]
- Synonyms: processor, 'puter (informal), box (slang), machine, calculator
- Hyponyms: desktop, laptop, portable computer, stored-program computer
- I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.
- As well as saving the photos on my computer, I have them backed up on a USB drive.
- David is a computer expert.
- Janet works at the computer store.
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:computer.
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:computer
Derived termsEdit
- analog computer
- computer-aided design
- computerate
- computer-based teaching
- computer conferencing
- computer dating
- computerese
- computer game
- computer graphics
- computerise
- computerism
- computerize
- computer language
- computerlike
- computer literacy
- computer literate
- computer programming
- computer science
- computer typesetting
- computer virus
- computress
- digital computer
- hybrid computer
- microcomputer
- minicomputer
- personal computer
- quantum computer
- supercomputer
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Descendants
- → Albanian: kompjuter
- → Amharic: ኮምፒዩተር (kompiyutär)
- → Azerbaijani: kompüter
- → Belarusian: камп'ю́тар (kampʺjútar), → Belarusian: кампу́тар (kampútar), → Belarusian: камп'ю́тэр (kampʺjúter)
- → Bengali: কম্পিউটাৰ (kômpiuṭaৰ)
- → Bulgarian: компю́тър (kompjútǎr)
- → Burmese: ကွန်ပျူတာ (kwanpyuta)
- → Danish: computer
- → Dutch: computer
- → Estonian: kompuuter
- → Georgian: კომპიუტერი (ḳomṗiuṭeri)
- → German: Computer
- → Greek: κομπιούτερ (kompioúter)
- → Hindi: कंप्यूटर (kampyūṭar)
- → Indonesian: komputer
- → Italian: computer
- → Japanese: コンピューター (konpyūtā)
- → Kazakh: компьютер (kompʹywter)
- → Khmer: កុំព្យូទ័រ (kompyuutɔə)
- → Korean: 컴퓨터 (keompyuteo)
- → Kyrgyz: компьютер (kompʹyuter)
- → Lao: ຄອມພິວເຕີ (khǭm phiu tœ̄)
- → Latvian: kompjūters
- → Lithuanian: kompiuteris
- → Luxembourgish: Computer
- → Macedonian: компју́тер (kompjúter)
- → Malay: komputer
- → Maltese: kompjuter
- → Mongolian: компьютер (kompʹjuter)
- → Oriya: କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର (kômpyuṭôrô)
- → Persian: کامپیوتر (kâmpyutar)
- → Pitcairn-Norfolk: kompyuuta
- → Polish: komputer
- → Romanian: computer
- → Romansch: computer
- → Russian: компью́тер (kompʹjúter)
- → Rusyn: компю́тер (kompjúter)
- → Scottish Gaelic: coimpiutair
- → Serbo-Croatian: компјутер
- Latin: kompjuter
- → Swahili: kompyuta
- → Tagalog: kompyuter
- → Tajik: компютер (kompyuter), → Tajik: компутар (komputar)
- → Telugu: కంప్యూటర్ (kampyūṭar)
- → Thai: คอมพิวเตอร์ (kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə)
- → Tok Pisin: kompyuta
- → Turkmen: kompýuter
- → Ukrainian: комп'ю́тер (kompʺjúter)
- → Urdu: کمپیوٹر (kampyūṭar)
- → Uyghur: كومپيۇتېر (kompyutër)
- → Uzbek: kompyuter
- → Xhosa: ikhompyutha
- → Yakut: көмпүүтэр (kömpüüter)
- → Yiddish: קאָמפּיוטער (kompyuter)
- → Zulu: ikhompyutha
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- computer on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English computer.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
computer c (singular definite computeren, plural indefinite computere)
- computer (machine)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of computer
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | computer | computeren | computere | computerne |
genitive | computers | computerens | computeres | computernes |
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from English computer.
NounEdit
computer m (plural computers, diminutive computertje n)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the main entry.
VerbEdit
computer
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin computō, computāre (“to compute, sum up”). See also the doublets compter and conter.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
computer
- (archaic, rare) To compute.
- 1802, François-René de Chateaubriand, Génie du christianisme
- Quant aux ères, ici on compte par l'année de la création, là par olympiade, par la fondation de Rome, par la naissance de Jésus-Christ, par l'époque d'Eusèbe, par celle des Séleucides, celle de Nabonassar, celle des martyrs. Les Turcs ont leur hégire, les Persans leur yezdegerdic. On compute encore par les éres julienne, grégorienne, ibérienne et actienne.
- As the eras, here they compute by the year of the creation, there by olympiads, by the foundation of Rome, by the birth of Christ, by the epoch of Eusebius, by that of Seleucids, of Nabonassar, of the Martyrs. The Turks have their hegira, the Persians their yezdegerdie. The Julian, Gregorian, Iberian and Actian eras, are also employed in computation.
- Quant aux ères, ici on compte par l'année de la création, là par olympiade, par la fondation de Rome, par la naissance de Jésus-Christ, par l'époque d'Eusèbe, par celle des Séleucides, celle de Nabonassar, celle des martyrs. Les Turcs ont leur hégire, les Persans leur yezdegerdic. On compute encore par les éres julienne, grégorienne, ibérienne et actienne.
- 1802, François-René de Chateaubriand, Génie du christianisme
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of computer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | computer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | computant /kɔ̃.py.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | computé /kɔ̃.py.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computes /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computons /kɔ̃.py.tɔ̃/ |
computez /kɔ̃.py.te/ |
computent /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
imperfect | computais /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ |
computais /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ |
computait /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ |
computions /kɔ̃.py.tjɔ̃/ |
computiez /kɔ̃.py.tje/ |
computaient /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | computai /kɔ̃.py.te/ |
computas /kɔ̃.py.ta/ |
computa /kɔ̃.py.ta/ |
computâmes /kɔ̃.py.tam/ |
computâtes /kɔ̃.py.tat/ |
computèrent /kɔ̃.py.tɛʁ/ | |
future | computerai /kɔ̃.py.tʁe/ |
computeras /kɔ̃.py.tʁa/ |
computera /kɔ̃.py.tʁa/ |
computerons /kɔ̃.py.tʁɔ̃/ |
computerez /kɔ̃.py.tʁe/ |
computeront /kɔ̃.py.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | computerais /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ |
computerais /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ |
computerait /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ |
computerions /kɔ̃.py.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
computeriez /kɔ̃.py.tə.ʁje/ |
computeraient /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computes /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computions /kɔ̃.py.tjɔ̃/ |
computiez /kɔ̃.py.tje/ |
computent /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
imperfect2 | computasse /kɔ̃.py.tas/ |
computasses /kɔ̃.py.tas/ |
computât /kɔ̃.py.ta/ |
computassions /kɔ̃.py.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
computassiez /kɔ̃.py.ta.sje/ |
computassent /kɔ̃.py.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
— | computons /kɔ̃.py.tɔ̃/ |
computez /kɔ̃.py.te/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “computer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
AnagramsEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English computer.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
computer m (invariable)
- computer (calculating device)
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
computer
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English computer.
NounEdit
computer n (plural computere)
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
RomanschEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English computer.
NounEdit
computer m (plural computers)
- computer
- Synonym: calculater