cloud computing

[ kloudkuhm-pyoo-ting ]

/ ˈklaʊd kəmˌpyu tɪŋ /

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noun Digital Technology.

internet-based computing in which large groups of remote servers are networked so as to allow sharing of data-processing tasks, centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources.

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Origin of cloud computing

First recorded in 1995–2000

Words nearby cloud computing

cloudbow, cloudburst, cloud cap, cloud-capped, cloud chamber, cloud computing, cloud cover, cloud-cuckoo-land, cloud ear, clouded, clouded leopard

How to use cloud computing in a sentence

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The web service business ushered in the era of cloud computing and now accounts for more than half of Amazon’s operating profit.
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That developed into a new market for the company, Amazon Web Services, a giant, profit-driving cloud computing operation that now powers websites around the world.
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Google’s founders expanded their idea of free access to the world’s information, pioneered in 1998, into Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube, and transitioned into devices and cloud computing.
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Google invented search but bought YouTube and was a late-comer to cloud computing.
Jeff Bezos drops CEO role with Amazon under attack|Aaron Pressman|February 3, 2021|Fortune
(Somewhere, on another cloud, live gigabytes of photos from these very parties).
I’m a Digital Hoarder|Lizzie Crocker|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
An innovative gift is the Qardioarm, a blood pressure monitor that records readings and uploads them to the cloud.
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By Alex Orlov for Life by DailyBurn Do dark, chilly days make your mood cloud over this time each year?
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The FSLN-controlled legislative assembly approved the mega-project under a cloud of secrecy in a record seven days.
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People were singing the national anthem as the whole front of the National Palace was obscured by a smoke cloud.
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For several months he remained under a political cloud, charged with incompetency to quell the Philippine Rebellion.
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Bacteria, when present in great numbers, give a uniform cloud which cannot be removed by ordinary filtration.
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Two years later this promising recruit, having fallen foul of the military authorities, had to leave the service under a cloud.
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The menace of a thunder-cloud approached as in his childhood's dream; disaster lurked behind the quiet outer show.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

British Dictionary definitions for cloud computing

cloud computing

noun

a model of computer use in which services stored on the internet are provided to users on a temporary basis

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