computerdom

American  

[kuhm-pyoo-ter-duhm] / kəmˈpyu tər dəm /

noun

1. the culture of computers and computer users.

2. a world ruled or dominated by computers.

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Etymology

Origin of computerdom

First recorded in 1965–70; computer ( def. ) + -dom ( def. )

Example Sentences

And though he went on to become, for a time, the golden boy of Silicon Valley--in 1981 Apple's $334 million in sales dwarfed Microsoft's puny $15 million--it was Bill Gates who became the emperor of all computerdom.

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The good news in computerdom is that the sluggishness appears to be over and many makers of personal computers are once again registering record revenues and plump profits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beneath computerdom's Big Three, a host of other companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, Zenith and Atari, are scrambling for a share of the growing market.

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Along with Luke, Darth Vader will be back, as menacing as ever, as will Princess Leia, Han Solo, the Wookie Chewbacca and computerdom's cutest robots, Artoo Detoo and Threepio.

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Yet the convergence PC is with us once again, backed this time by two giants of computerdom--Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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