computor

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A form of computer — 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.

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Meanings

nouncomputor (plural computors)

plural computors

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of computer.

    WITH SERIAL COMPUTOR INTERFACE

    1985 December 28, “Sims Anemometers Measure Wind!”, in Weatherwise (inline advertisement), Sims Anemometers, page 58
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    British Railways are beginning to reap the advantages of electronics applied to accounting. At Swindon Works, a computor, the first of its type to be used anywhere in the world, was installed recently to deal with the pay of some 10,000 employees.

    1957 November 28, “Electronics in Railway Accountancy”, in Railway Magazine, page 746

    EPS will retrieve the information from Western Union, via its computor and forward to you.

    1984 April 25, “Electronic Mail is in McAllen!”, in The Monitor, 74th year, number 255, McAllen, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18A, column 9

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Latinputus
  7. Latinputō
  8. Latincomputō
  9. Latincomputāre
  10. Frenchcomputer
  11. Englishcompute
  12. Englishcomputor

From compute + -or.

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Chicago

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