computing

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/

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VerbEdit

computing

1. present participle of compute

NounEdit

computing (uncountable)

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

   This course will cover several major fields of computing.

Related termsEdit

• computable
• computation
• computerize

TranslationsEdit

calculation — see calculation

action of using a computer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 计算机应用

• Dutch: computeren (nl), computergebruik (nl) n

• Finnish: tietojenkäsittely (fi)
• French: utilisation d'un ordinateur (fr) f
• Greek: υπολογίζοντας (el) (ypologízontas)

the study, field of computers and computer programming

• 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)
• Hungarian: számítástechnika (hu)
• Italian: informatica (it) f
• Japanese: 計算機科学 (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)

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
• Novial: ^{(please verify)} komputo, ^{(please verify)} komputatione

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

See alsoEdit

• computer-aided design
• computer graphics
• computer language
• computer science