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computer | cyberia |

As a noun computer

is a person employed to perform computations; one who computes.

As a proper noun Cyberia is

the connected virtual world that users can interact with by means of computer networks; cyberspace.

computer

English

(commons) (wikipedia computer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (now, rare, chiefly, historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
  • * 1927 , J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Essays , page 173
    • 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.
  • * 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA, page 116:
    • 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.
  • by restriction, a male computer, where the female computer is called a computress
  • 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.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "computer")

    Synonyms

    * (programmable device that performs logical operations) automatic data processing machine, processor, 'puter (informal), box (slang), machine, calculator, portable computer, laptop * See also

    Hyponyms

    * (programmable device that performs logical operations) desktop, laptop * (a person employed to perform computations) computress (f)

    Antonyms

    * (a person employed to perform computations) computress (f) (when "computer" is used to represent the masculine form)

    Derived terms

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    Related terms

    * compute * computation * computing

    See also

    * chip * data processing * desktop * hardware * laptop * mainframe * microprocessor 1000 English basic words ----

    cyberia

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The connected virtual world that users can interact with by means of computer networks; cyberspace.
  • * 1996 , Peter Dickens, Reconstructing nature: alienation, emancipation and the division of labour
    • Developments in 'cyberia' , the Internet and so on have both inspired and been interpreted by theories of postmodernity.
  • * 1999 , Thomas A. Peters, Computerized monitoring and online privacy
    • If cyberia is a threat to real governments, in the near future they may begin to use computerized monitoring as a way to better understand, control, and probably tax the behavior of netizens.
  • * 2001 , Hubert L. Dreyfus, On the Internet
    • We may lament the risks endemic to an embodied world where we are embedded with objects and others in in local situations, but the idea of living in boundless Cyberia , where everyone is telepresent to everyone and everything, makes no sense.
  • * 2002 , Leo P. Chall, Sociological abstracts, Volume 50, Issue 1
    • The article presents an idea of cyberia as a civil society & uses four categories to present challenges that this type of society brings to the idea of the public sphere: interactivity, subjectivity, media, & site.