computing

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Verb

computing

1. Present participle of compute.

Noun

computing (uncountable)

1. (literally) The process or act of calculation
2. Action of using (a) computer(s).
3. The study, field of computers and computer programming.

   This course will cover several major fields of computing.

Related terms

• computable
• computation
• computerize

Translations

calculation — see calculation

action of using a computer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: computeren (nl), computergebruik (nl) n

• Finnish: tietojenkäsittely (fi)
• Greek: υπολογίζοντας (el) (ypologízontas)

the study, field of computers and computer programming

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: informatica (nl)
• Finnish: tietojenkäsittelytiede (fi)
• French: informatique (fr) f
• Greek: πληροφορική (el) (pliroforikí) f
• Hungarian: számítástechnika (hu)
• Italian: informatica (it) f

• Khmer: កុំព្យូទ័រវិទ្យា (km) (kompyuutoa vityie), គណិតូបករណ៍វិទ្យា (km) (kak net tob kor vit tyea)
• Macedonian: информатика (mk) (informátika) f
• Persian: انفورماتیک (fa) (anformâtik)
• Portuguese: Informática (pt)
• Romanian: informatică (ro) f
• Russian: информатика (ru) (informátika) f
• Sindhi: ڳڻپيوڀياس (sd) (ganpyubhiyaas)

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: računarstvo (sh) n
• Esperanto: komputili
• French: computation, utilisation d'un ordinateur, informatique
• Interlingua: computatorar

• Novial: komputo, komputatione
• Portuguese: informática f, computação f
• Spanish: computación
• Volapük: kompütön

See also

• computer-aided design
• computer graphics
• computer language
• computer science