computeryn.
/kəmˈpjuːt(ə)ri/, U.S. /kəmˈpjudəri/ Chiefly British.
Computers collectively; computer technology.
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society > computing and information technology > [noun]
communications technology1941
communication technology1950
information technology1952
computer science1956
computery1960
cyberculture1963
computerdom1968
infotech1981
IT1982
1960 Times 17 June 9/1 (advt.) There is scarcely an idea of the fiction writer that is not become fact—automation and computery, for example.
1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 4 Jan. i. 7 Once you had distributed your computer power through your company by adding intelligence to office machines all that computery had to be tied together, somehow.
1995 Observer 17 Sept. (Review section) 11/1 If you are allergic to computery, then please bear with me.
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computeryadj.
/kəmˈpjuːtəri/, U.S. /kəmˈpjudəri/ Relating to or characteristic of computers; characterized by computer technology, esp. in a repellent way.
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1965 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 20 Apr. 6/1 If machines ever replace man in the modern computery age, it may be a consolation that some mechanical brains are based on a study of the human body.
1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia i. iii. 36 But the well is not a dry, computery place... There's a tangible feeling of being ‘plugged in’ to a cyber community.
1994 Personal Computer World Oct. 322/1 Companies which develop systems but don't design the computery bits.
2000 Independent 28 Feb. (Monday Review section) 9/3 Designing the interface so it appealed to a good cross-section of the audience it's being presented to—not too designy, not too computery.
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