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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of computation and computer technology, hardware, and software.
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- noun The study of
computers and theirarchitecture ,languages , and applications, in all aspects, as well as the mathematical structures that relate to computers andcomputation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
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