computing

UK/kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/US/kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,996 of 15,258mostly written

Computing is the study of computers and what they can do. Study computing, a computing degree, cloud computing.

As a school subject it replaced the old lessons in using office software, and it now means programming and how machines work. In phrases like cloud computing it means the use of computer power rather than the study of it.

Definitions of computing

1nounsubjectThe study of computers and what they can do.B1+
“She's studying computing at college because she wants to be a programmer.”

computing is a subject.

Where it comes from

by surface analysis, compute + -ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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computing in the wild

The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication.
Bit
Computing is any goal-oriented activity that requires, benefits from, or creates computing machinery.
Computing
The term computing is also synonymous with counting and calculating.
Computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers.
Distributed computing
Distributed systems can also suffer from fallacies of distributed computing.
Distributed computing

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