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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A computer that performs calculations and logical operations with quantities represented as digits, usually in the binary number system.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Computers) a computer that represents information by numerical digits with a fixed number of values; -- most commonly each piece of information is internally represented in binary code, as an array of
bits , which are information units each of which can take only two values. The possible values of eachbit are conventionally represented as the numbers 1 or 0.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
computing device (computer ) that processes signals that change in discrete, quantized, steps; as opposed to ananalog computer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a computer that represents information by numerical (binary) digits
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