Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. computing A system for computing that includes the computing unit itself and its peripherals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage
Examples
“As always, to get a number one had to give an address, but the computer system contemptuously spat out Patricia Huxford, Surrey, as being altogether too vague.”
“Not long ago, Ruettgers himself met with executives from Disney who needed help in reorganizing the computer system in their resort hotels.”
“Steve Bales, the LM computer system expert, had no idea what it was.”
“The IMU equipment was state of the art, with a rock-solid computer system which took the job of calculating their breathing mix and ascent rate entirely out of their hands.”
“Tracey - our receptionist - told me that a Mr Randish had rung to enquire about a computer system and she'd told him I'd ring back. ”
“If Randish did meet her through the firm who sold him his new computer system Mrs Prote would know who they are.”
“The European Community repeated the complaint in 1981, and John Tagliabue defined the word in the New York Times: “the practice of what is called bundling—selling the elements of a computer system as a package to prevent competitors from supplying them at perhaps better conditions.””
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“John Creighton once commented that to have Hawley in the cockpit was to have a sixth GPC aboard, a play on the fact that the shuttle computer system consisted of only five IBM General Purpose Computers GPC.”
“Now, the planetarium's own large computer system as well as supercomputers at the NASA facility and at the National Center for Super Computer Applications at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana are running nonstop to finish visualizations for the show.”
The Wall Street Journal: Planetarium Stars Again After Revamp
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An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
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computer phrases / words
how computer is used
computer age, computer-aided, computer analysis, computer animation, computer art, computer-assisted, computer-based, computer chip, computer circuit, computer conferen..., computer console, computer control and 102 more...
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