computer

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a machine for performing calculations automatically
  2. noun an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)

Etymology

From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor. First sense first appears c. 1613 in the works of the poet Richard Brathwait. Second sense first appears c. 1897 in the magazine Engineering.

In classic literature

Synonyms

computing machine, computing device, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system

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