computing

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, compute +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

computing (usually uncountable, plural computings)

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

     Home computing includes 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 and computer programming.

   This course will cover several major fields of computing.

Synonyms

• (process or act of calculation): computation, reckoning; see also Thesaurus: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 — see calculation

action of using a computer

Chinese: Mandarin: 计算机应用 Dutch: computeren (nl), computergebruik (nl) n Esperanto: komputado Finnish: tietokoneen käyttö, tietojenkäsittely (fi) French: utilisation d'un ordinateur f German: EDV (de) f Greek: υπολογίζοντας (el) (ypologízontas) Hebrew: מִחְשׁוּב m (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 računala f Spanish: computación (es) f

the study, field of computers and computer programming

Arabic: حَوْسَبَة f (ḥawsaba) Catalan: computació f, informàtica (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 计算机编程 (jìsuànjī biānchéng) Dutch: informatica (nl) Finnish: tietojenkäsittelytiede (fi) French: informatique (fr) f Galician: informática (gl) f German: Informatik (de) f, Computerei f Greek: πληροφορική (el) f (pliroforikí) Hindi: संगणिकी f (saṅgṇikī) Hungarian: számítástechnika (hu) Indonesian: komputasi Italian: informatica (it) f Japanese: 計算機科学 (ja) (keisanki-kagaku) Khmer: កុំព្យូទ័រវិទ្យា (kompyuutoa vityie), គណិតូបករណ៍វិទ្យា (kak net tob kor vit tyea) Macedonian: информатика f (informatika) Norwegian: informatikk (no) m Persian: انفورماتیک (fa) (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 Swahili: utarakilishi Tamil: கணிமை (kaṇimai)

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Esperanto: (please verify) komputili Interlingua: (please verify) computatorar Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) računarstvo (sh) n Volapük: (please verify) kompütön

Further reading

• computing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

computing

1. present participle and gerund of compute