computerette

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/kəmpjutɚˈɹɛt/

noun

A small computer.

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Meanings

nouncomputerette (plural computerettes)

plural computerettes

  1. rareliteratureA small computer.

    My bijou computerette had no truck with floppy disks, so an Internet café would not suffice.

    2012, Miranda Innes, Getting to Manana, page 175
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    One tiny cassette holds 8000 2000-mile routes, any of which can be exposed at will. It is not hard to imagine the ACD — and its associated computerette — becoming a splended "optional extra" in the vacationer's family car.

    1968, Popular Mechanics, volume 129, number 3, page 115

    Highly robotic for her time, Baby Luna came with her moon landing module, crashball, computerette, star maps, space suit, dragon robe and other clothes.

    2011, Fred Holmes, Heroes of the Transition, page 8

    What I should really do, of course, is use a Personal Digital Assistant; one of those tiny hand-held computerette thingies […]

    2013, Iain Banks, Raw Spirit, page 60

Origin

From computer + -ette.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with computerette

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APA

computerette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/computerette

MLA

“computerette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/computerette. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “computerette,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/computerette.

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