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Noun
electronic computer (plural electronic computers)
- (dated, retronym) A programmable computer.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:computer
- 1963, James Allan Painter, “Editor's Preface”, in Stephen Maxfield Parrish, editor, A Concordance to the Poems of W. B. Yeats, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page v:
- To invoke the aid of an electronic computer in mapping Yeats's private worlds of myth and symbol and Irish legend may well arouse disquiet.