computerese

American  

[kuhm-pyoo-tuh-reez, -rees] / kəmˌpyu təˈriz, -ˈris /

noun

Digital Technology.

1. the jargon and technical terms associated with computers and their operation.

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Etymology

Origin of computerese

First recorded in 1955–60; computer + -ese

Example Sentences

The play is annotated by a chorus of six performers who speak in the exasperating language of computerese.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2018

I spoke English miserably, but the watch had its own language, a computerese series of squeaks issuing from a tiny Japanese speaker to form passable melodies.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017

Any new technology requires its technical terms, of course, but computerese also reaches out with robot arms to seize ordinary words and twist them to its own syntactical purposes.

From Time Magazine Archive

These images of trouble are ubiquitous in computerese.

From Time Magazine Archive

Swatches of poetry are jumbled together with passages of computerese and snippets of mysteriously disembodied conversation.

From Time Magazine Archive