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analog computer
noun
- a computer that represents data by measurable quantities, as voltages or, formerly, the rotation of gears, in order to solve a problem, rather than by expressing the data as numbers.
analog computer
noun
- a mechanical, electrical, or electronic computer that performs arithmetical operations by using some variable physical quantity, such as mechanical movement or voltage, to represent numbers
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Origin of analog computer1
Example Sentences
The game ran on an ancient analog computer and was played on a tiny oscilloscope screen about five inches in diameter.
The bones are the latest prize from a treasure trove that has yielded bronze statues, marble sculptures and, most famously, the Antikythera mechanism, a clocklike device thought to be the world’s oldest analog computer.
Trained as an electrical engineer, in the 1920s he had invented a machine known as a differential analyzer: an analog computer whose digital offspring would dominate the information age.
Some scholars describe the Antikythera Mechanism as the world’s first analog computer.
The boat sank, along with tons of treasure: coins, gold jewelry, dozens of large marble and bronze statues, and an extraordinary, bronze clockwork device now counted as the first analog computer.
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