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c 3 o 1 m 3 p 3 u 1 t 1 e 1 r 1

8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a machine for performing calculations automatically

noun an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)

originFrom compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor. The sense referring to people first appears c. 1613 in the works of the poet Richard Brathwait. The sense referring to a machine first appears c. 1897 in the magazine Engineering.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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