Other forms: computers
A computer is the machine with a screen and keys that runs programs and reaches the internet. A laptop computer, the computer crashed, use a computer.
Desktop, laptop and tablet are the household kinds, and a phone is a computer by any technical definition. Before about 1945, a computer was a person who did calculations for a living, usually a woman, and the human computers of early astronomy and spaceflight did work that machines later took over. Note computing, computerise; and that computer says no is a phrase about institutions rather than machines.
1nouncomputerA machine that runs programs and processes information.
“I use my computer to write emails and do my homework.”
synonyms: PC, machine
computer is a machine.
Also accepted in games: pc
Proto-Indo-European
*pewH-
English, today
computer
From compute + -er. a doublet of cantore and counter and kontor. The sense referring to people first appears c. 1613 in the works of the poet Richard Brathwait. The sense referring to a machine first appears c. 1897 in the magazine Engineering.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA