computer — 영어 사전

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1. 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.

   번역수학 계산과 논리 연산을 수행하는 프로그래밍 가능한 전자 장치. 특히 대량의 데이터를 매우 빠르게 처리·저장·검색할 수 있는 것. 현재는 특히 문서나 그래픽 작업, 인터넷 접속, 게임이나 미디어 재생에 쓰는 개인·가정용 소형 기기.

   동의어

   'puterbox

   상위어

   machinedevice

   예문

   I use a computer for work.

   Meronyms: processor, microprocessor, CPU

   I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.

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   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.

2. A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.

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   • 역사 용어

   동의어

   computatormental calculatorhuman calculator

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   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.

   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.

   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.

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   During World War II, scientific laboratories had rooms full of people doing different parts of a complicated calculation using pencil and paper, slide rules, and mechanical calculators. At that time, the word computer referred to a person, and those group calculations may be viewed as the early steps of parallel computing.

   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.

3. A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. A male computer.

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   • 역사 용어

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   Coordinate term: (female) computress

동사

1. To use a computer.

   용법

   • 자동사
   • nonstandard
   • 드문 표현

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   Cool he was computering, though. My dad, who is only in his 60's (mom too) thinks he is too busy to get connected to the internet. Oh well. More bandwidth for the rest of us, huh?

   I don't know if you have the same violent mood-swing issues that I do, but I was bustling around the house feeling very useful and good, and then I was sitting here computering for a while, and suddenly it was like a giant butterfly net scooped me up and threw me into an old mayonnaise jar, […]

   I'm constantly computering, schlepping, stressing, and hauling ass like the rest of us. We are New Yorkers.

   Yeah, you saw what he could do when he flips out. I mean, how am I going to say no to that? Plus, he does computer good.

2. To send via computer.

   용법

   • nonstandard
   • 드문 표현
   • 타동사

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   They had immediately computered the description out to the scores of law enforcement agencies in Southern California.

   더 많은 예문 (1)

   'Nah. It was him hated it more than me. Fish out of water. Cops watching every move he makes. Memos about him computered to every nick in the land. He was too innocent for this hi-tech world, Bobby. Would've been back inside in no time at all.'

3. To transfer onto a computer; to computerize.

   용법

   • nonstandard
   • 드문 표현
   • 타동사

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   더 많은 예문 (4)

   I know there are storage warehouses in New York and Virginia and all over the place, St. Louis, and many other places, that keep these things. I think this is a very fertile area for this committee, and perhaps computering it, or microfilm preservation, or things of that sort.

   Our sincere thanks are due to Antje Reuter, Jens Adam and Uwe Horstmann for computering the manuscript and Ralph Phillips and Kirsten Techmer for proof reading it.

   It is also a pleasure to recommend the skill of Irit Markan who carried out the work of 'computering' the text, and of Ivor Ludlam who bore the labour of proof reading—both the English and the Greek.

   I have 30 years worth of logs some place and they have been computered the last few years and the last few years I think I have posted them to the sites I hang out on.

명사

1. a machine for performing calculations automatically

   동의어

   computing machinecomputing devicedata processorelectronic computerinformation processing system

   상위어

   machine

2. an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)

   동의어

   calculatorreckonerfigurerestimator

   상위어

   expert