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The meaning of the word computes is to make a computation. It is the third person of compute which means to calculate or make a calculation. When you use a calculator you are letting the calculator compute the answer for you.

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What is the denotative meaning and connotative meaning of computer?

One who computes.


How did the words computer come into exist?

Prior to 1940 dictionaries defined, computer: n, one who computes, meaning a person.


What did the word computer mean before computers were invented?

Before modern computers were invented word "computer" meant "somebody who computes".


The letter c in a word computer stands for what?

"Computer" is not an abbreviation. It means "one that computes", or solves math problems.


Where did the term computer get orgin?

The word "computer" means something or someone who computes. The first computers were, in fact, people - "computer" was a job description for the people who performed calculations by hand and paper. Later, when the first mechanical and electronic computing machines were built, they were called "computers" since their primary function was seen as computation of numbers ("number crunching"). Later, they assumed other roles as well, such as storage and retrieval of data, but the word "computer" stuck.


What does the computer?

It computes.


Flowchart that computes the sum of 1 to 50?

flow chart that computes the sum from 1 to 50


What is the origin of the word Computer?

"According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "computer" was first used to describe a mechanical calculating device in 1897. Although the word existed previously, it had been used to describe 'a person who computes or performs calculations.'"http://www.usefultrivia.com/miscellaneous_trivia/computer_trivia_002a.html


What is full meaning of computer like common output machine?

Computer is not an acronym. It comes from the root word "Compute," as in making the computations involved in mathematics. As adding the suffix -er means "Something that does (the action stated)," Computer would mean "Something that Computes."


What is the word for the collective possible arrangements of the letters in a single word?

I can't remember what the word for that is called specifically, but I know there are sites out there can can help you, that computes a list of all the possibilities that the letters can be arranged. Anagram


What is the meaning of computer?

Prior to the 1940s, computers were humans paid to do computation. Usually they had mathematics degrees but spent all day calculating with manually operated desk calculators.After the 1940s, computers were machines replacing the humans that used to do those jobs. However the best displaced human computers became the programmers of the machines.


Does apple donate computes?

yes

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