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    The etymology and history of the term "computer" is summarized in 3 sentences: The term "computer" was first used in 1613 to refer to a person who performed calculations. It maintained this definition of referring to a human computer until the mid-20th century. By the late 19th century the term began taking on its more modern meaning of a machine that can perform calculations, and by 1945 it referred specifically to programmable digital electronic computers.

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    ETYMOLOGY OF THE TERM "COMPUTER

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    The etymology and history of the term "computer" is summarized in 3 sentences: The term "computer" was first used in 1613 to refer to a person who performed calculations. It maintained this definition of referring to a human computer until the mid-20th century. By the late 19th century the term began taking on its more modern meaning of a machine that can perform calculations, and by 1945 it referred specifically to programmable digital electronic computers.

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    Etymology

    According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word "computer" was in 1613
    in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwait: "I haue [sic] read
    the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer [sic] breathed, and he reduceth
    thy dayes into a short number." This usage of the term referred to a person who carried out
    calculations or computations. The word continued with the same meaning until the middle of the 20th
    century. From the end of the 19th century the word began to take on its more familiar meaning, a
    machine that carries out computations.[1]
    The Online Etymology Dictionary gives the first attested use of "computer" in the "1640s, [meaning]
    "one who calculates,"; this is an "... agent noun from compute (v.)". The Online Etymology
    Dictionary states that the use of the term to mean "calculating machine" (of any type) is from 1897."
    The Online Etymology Dictionary indicates that the "modern use" of the term, to mean
    "programmable digital electronic computer" dates from "... 1945 under this name; [in a] theoretical
    [sense] from 1937, as Turing machine".[2]

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