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English

Etymology

From compute +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?m?pju?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?m?pjut?/, [k?m?p?ju??]
• Hyphenation: com?put?er
• Rhymes: -u?t?(r)

Noun

computer (plural computers)

1. (now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. [from 17th c.]

   Hyponym: computress

2. (by restriction, chiefly historical) A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.
3. 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. [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: processor, (informal) 'puter, (slang) box, machine, calculator

   Hyponyms: desktop, laptop, portable computer, stored-program computer

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:computer.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:computer

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

Further reading

• computer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• computer on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English computer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k??m?p?j?u?d??]

Noun

computer c (singular definite computeren, plural indefinite computere)

1. computer (machine)

Declension

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?pjut?r/
• Hyphenation: com?pu?ter
• Rhymes: -ut?r

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English computer.

Noun

computer m (plural computers, diminutive computertje n)

1. computer

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

computer

1. first-person singular present indicative of computeren
2. imperative of computeren

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin comput?, comput?re (“to compute, sum up”). See also the doublets compter and conter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.py.te/
• Homophones: computai, computé, computée, computées, computés, computez

Verb

computer

1. (archaic, rare) To compute.
   • 1802, François-René de Chateaubriand, Génie du christianisme

     Quant aux ères, ici on compte par l'année de la création, là par olympiade, par la fondation de Rome, par la naissance de Jésus-Christ, par l'époque d'Eusèbe, par celle des Séleucides, celle de Nabonassar, celle des martyrs. Les Turcs ont leur hégire, les Persans leur yezdegerdic. On compute encore par les éres julienne, grégorienne, ibérienne et actienne.

     As the eras, here they compute by the year of the creation, there by olympiads, by the foundation of Rome, by the birth of Christ, by the epoch of Eusebius, by that of Seleucids, of Nabonassar, of the Martyrs. The Turks have their hegira, the Persians their yezdegerdie. The Julian, Gregorian, Iberian and Actian eras, are also employed in computation.

Conjugation

See also

• supputer
• compter

Further reading

• “computer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• compteur

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English computer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kom?pju.ter/
• Hyphenation: com?pù?ter

Noun

computer m (invariable)

1. computer (calculating device)

Latin

Verb

computer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of comput?

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English computer.

Noun

computer n (plural computere)

1. computer

Related terms

• computa

See also

• calculator
• ordinator

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from English computer.

Noun

computer m (plural computers)

1. computer

   Synonym: calculater

English

Alternative forms

• off-line

Etymology

off- +? line

Adjective

offline (not comparable)

1. Of a system, currently not connected (generally electrically) to a larger network. For example, a power plant which is not connected to the grid, or a computer which is not connected to the Internet or to any other communications service.

   Antonym: online

2. (by extension) Happening in the physical world (the real world) as opposed to on the internet.

   Synonym: IRL

   Antonym: online

Translations

Adverb

offline (not comparable)

1. While offline; with an offline system.

   Antonym: online

   • 1982, "Hardware News", InfoWorld, volume 4, number 26, page 89:

     The 2000 also emulates Diablo, Qume and NEC letter-quality printers, and has a large enough buffer memory to operate off line from the host computer for an hour.

   • 2000, Syndey S. Chellen, The Essential Guide to the Internet for Health Professionals, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 124:

     If you want to keep the phone bill down you can set up your Newsreader to operate offline. This means that your Newsreader will fetch new message headers, collect messages you wish to read, and send any responses you may have set up all in one go. You can then read news offline, while you are not running up the phone bill[…].

   • 2008, Vickie Taylor, The Complete Guide to Writing Web-Based Advertising Copy to Get the Sale, Atlantic Publishing, ?ISBN, page 230:

     Men like to play games online, and they also like to find out about the games that they play offline.

2. (business slang) Outside the current meeting, in a more private setting.
   • 2001, Rosabeth Moss Kantner, Evolve!, Harvard Business Press, ?ISBN, page 1:

     At meetings, people cut off discussion by saying “Let’s continue that conversation offline,” even though they are meeting face to face, not online; “offline” is a new synonym for “in private,” as though everything public were now on the Internet.

   • 2002, Verne Harnish, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, SelectBooks, ?ISBN, page 88:

     The person running the meeting also has the important job of saying “Take it offline.” Whenever two or more people get off on a tangent that doesn’t require everybody’s attention, instruct them to continue the conversation outside the boundaries of the meeting.

   • 2009, Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, The Introverted Leader, Berrett-Koehler, ?ISBN, page 95:

     Offer to discuss the topic offline or table the discussion until things cool down.

Verb

offline (third-person singular simple present offlines, present participle offlining, simple past and past participle offlined)

1. (computing, transitive) To take (a system, etc.) offline; to demote from an active or online state.
   • 1986, Kai Hwang, Steven M. Jacobs, Earl E. Swartzlander, Proceedings of the 1986 International Conference on Parallel Processing (page 462)

     Offlining a memory processor can be accomplished by using the flexible interleaving capability described earlier to interleave segments across subsets of the memory processors, avoiding the faulty one(s).

   • 2008, Sam Alapati, Expert Oracle Database 11g Administration (page 908)

     Traditionally, you fixed the problem by offlining the disk and re-creating the disk's extents on a different disk using redundant extent copies and then dropping the failed disk.

German

Etymology

From English offline.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??fla??n/

Adjective

offline (not comparable)

1. (uninflectable, predicative) offline

   Antonym: online

Further reading

• “offline” in Duden online
• “offline” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Spanish

Etymology

From English offline.

Adjective

offline (invariable)

1. offline