Etymology
From Latin computare meaning to count or compute. Originally, a "computer" was a person who was employed to perform computations. The term began to be applied to machines in the 1940s.
Noun
- A machine that performs mathematical calculations, especially one that can perform several calculations in sequence without operator intervention.
- A type of apparatus, usually electronic, that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of information very quickly.
- (largely obsolete) A person employeed to perform computations.
Related terms
Translations
- Arabic: كمبيوتر (kmbyutr)
- Breton: urzhiataer m, -ioù pl
- Catalan: ordinador m
- Chinese:计算机/电脑
- Dutch: computer m, rekenaar m
- Dzongkha: 'logrig'we
- Esperanto: komputilo.
- Finnish: tietokone
- French: ordinateur m
- German: Computer m, Rechner m
- Greek: computer, υπολογιστή&sigmaf m
- Hebrew: מחשב
- Hindi: (sanghanak)
- Hungarian: számitogép
- Icelandic: tölva
- Indonesian: komputer
- Interlingua: computator
- Italian: computer m
- Japanese: コンピュータ (kompyūta), 計算機 (けいさんき, keisanki)
- Korean: 컴퓨터 (keompyuteo)
- Latvian: dators
- Maori: rorohiko
- Polish: komputer
- Portuguese: computador
- Russian: компьютер (computer) m
- Spanish:
- ordenador m (Spain, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua)
- computadora f (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Cuba, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Paraguay)
- computador m (Chile, Columbia and sometimes in Peru)
- Swedish: dator
- Turkish: bilgisayarı
- Volapük: kompütöm
- Yiddish: קאָמפּיוטער
See also
- Wikipedia article on the computer
