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What does the COMPUTER stand for?

What does the COMPUTER stand for? Correct Answer Commonly Operated Machines Used in Technical and Educational Research

The word COMPUTER is an abbreviation for the terms “Commonly Operated Machines Used in Technical and Educational Research”. The word COMPUTER also relates to the word COMPUTE which means to calculate. So, initially it was thought that a computer is a device which is used to perform calculations.

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