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computerette en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kəmpjutɚˈɹɛt/

Etymology

From computer + -ette.

Meanings

1. (rare) A small computer.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • My bijou computerette had no truck with floppy disks, so an Internet café would not suffice. 2012, Miranda Innes, Getting to Manana, page 175:
   • 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:

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