mainframe

English

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Noun

mainframe (plural mainframes)

1. (computer hardware) A large, powerful computer able to manage very many simultaneous tasks and communicate with very many connected terminals; used by large, complex organizations (such as banks and supermarkets) where continuously sustained operation is vital

Derived terms

• micromainframe
• minimainframe

Translations

large computer

• Finnish: suurtietokone (fi), keskustietokone (fi)
• German: Großrechner (de) m
• Greek: μεγαλόσχημος (el) (megalóschimos) m
• Hungarian: nagygép (hu)

• Norwegian: stormaskin (no) m
• Swedish: stordator (sv) c
• Turkish: anabilgisayar (tr)