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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
computator en · NOUN
Meanings
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(archaic) A person who performs computations.
But this is an advantage not to be had by the biographer in this planet;—in the planet Mercury (belike) it may be so, if not better still for him;——for there the intense heat of the country, which is proved by computators, from its vicinity to the sun, to be more than equal to that of red-hot iron, […]
1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXIII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC:
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(archaic) A mechanical device that performs computation.
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(humorous) Synonym of computer (“electronic device”).
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Synonyms
computer