COMPUTER
COMPUTER
computer came into use in English in 1646 as a word for 'one
who computes' and then by 1897 as a 'mechanical calculating machine'.
The word referred to an electronic machine by 1946. It is formed from
the word compute, which was borrowed in 1631 from French, which was a learned borrowing from Latin computare meaning to count sum uP reckon.
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