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  • adjective Having some similarity to a computer.

Etymologies

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computer +‎ -like

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Examples

  • More tablets are pegged for later this year, and computerlike BlackBerry "superphones" will come soon after.

    Blackberry Battles Back Elizabeth Woyke 2011

  • Specifically: Consumers may balk if TV sets become too computerlike and complicated.

    The death of the URL | FactoryCity 2009

  • Her discussions of human nature are free of ideology and focus instead on consciousness and complex biological structure to differentiate human beings from computerlike machines.

    May Brodbeck. 2009

  • "He is always friendly, polite and simple, is a good listener, answers directly and has a computerlike memory," says Nasrullah.

    Pakistan’s Dangerous Double Game 2008

  • And more and more of today's phones have computerlike features, allowing their owners to send e-mail, browse the Web and even take photos; 84 million phones with digital cameras were shipped last year.

    YOUR NEXT COMPUTER 2007

  • PalmOne is among the firms racing to trot out the full-featured computerlike phones that the industry dubs smart phones.

    YOUR NEXT COMPUTER 2007

  • When our perfect computerlike subconscious mind is repeatedly shown mental pictures of our most desired goals on the videotape of our mind, the memory becomes so dominant that we are able to re-create it in reality.

    Creating Wealth Robert G. Allen 2006

  • When our perfect computerlike subconscious mind is repeatedly shown mental pictures of our most desired goals on the videotape of our mind, the memory becomes so dominant that we are able to re-create it in reality.

    Creating Wealth Robert G. Allen 2006

  • It was Morgan, and her computerlike dispassion was gone.

    Stone and Anvil Peter David 2003

  • Blessed with a remarkable intellect that he regularly downplayed, Sammy also possessed an almost computerlike ability to constantly sift through scenarios until he hit the one that seemed most likely.

    The Commander Patrick A. Davis 2002

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