- supercomputer
- noun Date: 1967 a large very fast mainframe used especially for scientific computations
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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supercomputer — su‧per‧com‧put‧er [ˈsuːpəkəmˌpjuːtə ǁ pərkəmˌpjuːtər] noun [countable] COMPUTING a large and powerful computer that can do complex jobs or process a lot of information very quickly * * * supercomputer UK US /ˈsuːpəkəmˌpjuːtər/ noun [C] IT ► a… … Financial and business terms
supercomputer — SUPERCOMPÚTER s. n. supercalculator; transputer. (< super1 + computer) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN … Dicționar Român
supercomputer — 1968, from SUPER (Cf. super ) + COMPUTER (Cf. computer) … Etymology dictionary
supercomputer — ► NOUN ▪ a particularly powerful mainframe computer … English terms dictionary
supercomputer — [so͞o′pər kəm pyo͞ot΄ər] n. an extremely fast and expensive computer, typically used for such complex tasks as scientific simulations, weather forecasting, etc … English World dictionary
Supercomputer — A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation (at the time of its introduction). The term Super Computing was first used by New York World newspaper in 1929 [cite book |last=Eames … Wikipedia
Supercomputer — Der Columbia Supercomputer der NASA mit 20x 512 Intel Itanium 2 Prozessoren … Deutsch Wikipedia
Supercomputer — Hochleistungsrechner * * * Su|per|com|pu|ter 〈[ pju: ] m. 3; EDV〉 Computer, der dem höchsten Wissensstand entspricht u. mit der schnellsten Prozessorgeschwindigkeit arbeitet * * * Supercomputer, Bezeichnung für Computer, deren Rechenleistung… … Universal-Lexikon
supercomputer — /sooh peuhr keuhm pyooh teuhr, sooh peuhr keuhm pyooh teuhr/, n. a very fast, powerful mainframe computer, used in advanced military and scientific applications. [SUPER + COMPUTER] * * * Any of a class of extremely powerful digital computers. The … Universalium
supercomputer — UK [ˌsuːpə(r)kəmˈpjuːtə(r)] / US [ˌsupərkəmˈpjutər] noun [countable] Word forms supercomputer : singular supercomputer plural supercomputers computing a very powerful computer that can deal with large amounts of information very quickly … English dictionary
supercomputer — [[t]su͟ːpə(r)kəmpju͟ːtə(r)[/t]] supercomputers N COUNT A supercomputer is a powerful computer that can process large amounts of data very quickly … English dictionary
