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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A computer in which numerical data is represented by measurable physical variables, such as electrical voltage or the position of a indicator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a computer that represents information by continuously variable quantities (e.g., positions or voltages).
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- noun A
computer (mechanical ,electrical or other) that processes usingcontinuously varying signals rather thandigital ,quantized ,values .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a computer that represents information by variable quantities (e.g., positions or voltages)
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