Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The technical language of those involved in computer technology.
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- noun informal The
jargon associated withcomputers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Knowledge Navigator was a tablet style computer with numerous advanced capabilities, including an excellent text-to-speech system with no hint of "computerese", a gesture based interface resembling the multitouch interface later used on the iPhone and an equally powerful speech understanding system, allowing the user to converse with the system via an animated "butler" as the software agent.
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The analogy, I take it, however, is to the fact that we can still "pull up," as they say in "computerese," the earlier interview.
Claremont.org 2009
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No big scientific/computerese language or concepts to figure out or just give up on & skip over.
Back to the Future: Live without a Net worth a read! Lou Anders 2008
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As a nineteen year old those observations on lingo and computerese acronyms might have some relevance, for the majority of visitors to this site ... they do not.
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I think, if asked, the computerese guyswill say that nothing is ever erased from a computer's memory banks, even if the 'delete' button is hit.
Deleted Whitehouse E-Mails; Another Bush Criminal; Another Reason to Impeach 2008
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So, I guess what I'm saying is that you need to be pretty hep on computerese.
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So, I guess what I'm saying is that you need to be pretty hep on computerese.
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So, I guess what I'm saying is that you need to be pretty hep on computerese.
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You sure file-dumped (sorry for the computerese) your life onto Op-Ed.
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So, I guess what I'm saying is that you need to be pretty hep on computerese.
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