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personal digital assistant

American  

noun

  1. a handheld computer, often pen-based, that provides especially organizational software, as an appointment calendar, and communications hardware, as a fax modem. PDA


personal digital assistant British  

noun

  1.  PDA.  a palmtop computer for storing information

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

personal digital assistant Scientific  
  1. See PDA


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His company had captured the lion’s share of the Personal Digital Assistant Market with the PalmPilot and some of its successors, which meant that Microsoft was going to take another run at them.

From The Verge • Dec. 7, 2021

You turn in semipanic to your countertop Personal Digital Assistant Obelisk™ and attempt to undig your own preparatory grave.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2019

A hands-on assessment of Apple's pioneering, ill-fated Personal Digital Assistant, twenty years after its original unveiling. @harrymccracken In the grand scheme of things, 1992 is such recent history that it barely qualifies as history.

From Time • Jun. 1, 2012

It was what the old nomenclature promised it would be: my Personal Digital Assistant.

From Forbes • Sep. 16, 2011

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