digital computer

American  

noun

1. a computer that processes information in digital form.

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digital computer British  

noun

1. an electronic computer in which the input is discrete rather than continuous, consisting of combinations of numbers, letters, and other characters written in an appropriate programming language and represented internally in binary notation Compare analog computer

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Etymology

Origin of digital computer

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

After the war he produced a detailed design for a digital computer in the modern sense.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2024

"The brain has a fundamentally different architecture than a digital computer," said Northwestern's Mark C. Hersam, who co-led the research.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

You can’t really simulate this on a digital computer because it’s too complicated.

From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023

He began his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research laid the groundwork for development of random-access memory for the digital computer.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 26, 2023

The visionary dimension of the digital computer is not in the technology, but in the concept of a universal language, a characteristica universalis, or lingua Adamica, as Leibniz conceived it.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai