computing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/

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Noun

computing (usually uncountable, plural computings)

1. (literally) The process or act of calculation.
2. (computer science) The use of a computer or computers.
3. The study of computers and computer programming.

   This course will cover several major fields of computing.

Synonyms

• (process or act of calculation): computation, reckoning; see also Thesaurus:calculation

Hyponyms

Hyponyms

• burst computing
• cloud computing
• edge computing
• fog computing

 

Related terms

Related terms

• computable
• computation
• computerize

 

Translations

calculation — see calculation

action of using a computer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 计算机应用

• Dutch: computeren (nl), computergebruik (nl) n
• Finnish: tietokoneen käyttö, tietojenkäsittely (fi)
• French: utilisation d'un ordinateur f

• German: EDV (de) f
• Greek: υπολογίζοντας (el) (ypologízontas)
• Italian: utilizzo del computer
• Japanese: コンピューティング
• Serbo-Croatian: uporaba računala f
• Spanish: computación (es) f

the study, field of computers and computer programming

• Arabic: حَوْسَبَة‎ f (ḥawsaba)
• Catalan: computació f, informàtica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 计算机编程

• Dutch: informatica (nl)
• Finnish: tietojenkäsittelytiede (fi)
• French: informatique (fr) f
• Galician: informática f
• Greek: πληροφορική (el) f (pliroforikí)
• Hindi: संगणिकी f (saṅgṇikī)
• Hungarian: számítástechnika (hu)
• Italian: informatica (it) f

• Japanese: 計算機科学 (ja) (keisanki-kagaku)
• Khmer: កុំព្យូទ័រវិទ្យា (kompyuutoa vityie), គណិតូបករណ៍វិទ្យា (kak net tob kor vit tyea)
• Macedonian: информатика f (informatika)
• Norwegian: informatikk (no) m
• Persian: انفورماتیک‎ (fa) (anformâtik)
• Polish: informatyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: informática (pt) f, computação (pt) f
• Romanian: informatică (ro) f
• Russian: информа́тика (ru) f (informátika)
• Sindhi: ڳڻپيوڀياس‎ (sd) (ganpyubhiyaas)
• Spanish: informática (es) f, computación (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} komputili
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} computatorar

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} računarstvo (sh) n
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} kompütön

Further reading

• computing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

computing

1. present participle of compute