computing

English

Etymology

Bysurface analysis,compute+‎-ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/

• Audio(US):

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Noun

computing(usuallyuncountable,pluralcomputings)

1. (literally)The process or act ofcalculation.
3. The use of acomputeror computers.
   • 2007,Sharon Yull,BTEC First ICT Practitioners:

     Homecomputingincludes children accessing information for educational purposes, parents accessing information for recreational purposes, users working from home, retired people 'silver surfers' that use computers for keeping in touch via e-mail, the Internet and through possible on-line clubs and societies.

4. The study of computers andcomputer programming.

   This course will cover several major fields ofcomputing.

Synonyms

• (process or act of calculation):computation,reckoning;see alsoThesaurus:calculation

Hyponyms

• advanced computing
• affective computing
• biocomputing
• burst computing
• cloud computing
• dew computing
• distributed computing
• edge computing
• fog computing
• geocomputing
• grid computing
• home computing
• memcomputing
• mesh computing
• microcomputing
• minicomputing
• nanocomputing
• neurocomputing
• parallel computing
• quantum computing
• reservoir computing
• retrocomputing
• scientific computing
• supercomputing
• telecomputing
• thin computing
• ubiquitous computing
• utility computing

Derived terms

• computing language
• noncomputing
• spatial computing

Related terms

Related terms

• computable
• computation
• computerize

Translations

calculation—seecalculation

action of using a computer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Máy tính ứng dụng

• Dutch:computeren(nl),computergebruik(nl)n
• Esperanto:komputado
• Finnish:tietokoneenkäyttö,tietojenkäsittely(fi)
• French:utilisationd’unordinateurf
• German:EDV(de)f
• Greek:υπολογίζοντας(el)(ypologízontas)
• Hebrew:מִחְשׁוּבm(mikhshúv)
• Indonesian:komputasi
• Italian:utilizzo del computer
• Japanese:コンピューティング(ja)
• Portuguese:computação(pt)f
• Serbo-Croatian:uporaba računalaf
• Spanish:computación(es)f

the study, field of computers and computer programming

• Arabic:حَوْسَبَةf(ḥawsaba)
• Catalan:computacióf,informàtica(ca)f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Máy tính biên trình(jìsuànjī biānchéng)

• Dutch:informatica(nl)
• Finnish:tietojenkäsittelytiede(fi)
• French:informatique(fr)f
• Galician:informática(gl)f
• German:Informatik(de)f,Computereif
• Greek:πληροφορική(el)f(pliroforikí)
• Hindi:संगणिकीf(saṅgṇikī)
• Hungarian:számítástechnika(hu)
• Indonesian:komputasi
• Italian:informatica(it)f
• Japanese:Máy tính khoa học(ja)(keisanki-kagaku)
• Khmer:កុំព្យូទ័រវិទ្យា(kompyuutoa vityie),គណិតូបករណ៍វិទ្យា(kak net tob kor vit tyea)
• Macedonian:информатикаf(informatika)
• Norwegian:informatikk(no)m
• Persian:انفورماتیک(phát)(anformâtik)
• Polish:informatyka(pl)f
• Portuguese:informática(pt)f,computação(pt)f
• Romanian:informatică(ro)f
• Russian:информа́тика(ru)f(informátika)
• Sindhi:ڳڻپيوڀياس(sd)(ganpyubhiyaas)
• Spanish:informática(es)f,computación(es)f

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto:^{(pleaseverify)}komputili
• Interlingua:^{(pleaseverify)}computatorar
• Serbo-Croatian:^{(pleaseverify)}računarstvo(sh)n
• Volapük:^{(pleaseverify)}kompütön

Further reading

• computingon Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

computing

1. presentparticipleandgerundofcompute