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mainframe
[ meyn-freym ]
noun
- a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users.
mainframe
/ ˈ³¾±ðɪ²ÔËŒ´Ú°ù±ðɪ³¾ /
noun
- a high-speed general-purpose computer, usually with a large storage capacity
- ( as modifier )
mainframe systems
- the central processing unit of a computer
mainframe
/ ³¾Äå²Ô′´Ú°ùÄ峾′ /
- A large, often powerful computer, usually dedicated to lengthy, complex calculations or set up for use by many people simultaneously.
- Compare personal computer
mainframe
- A large, powerful computer system. A mainframe computer typically carries out complex calculations and is shared by many users. ( Compare personal computer .)
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Example Sentences
He first got access to an early mainframe computer via a teletype machine at the school, after the mothers held a jumble sale to raise the money.
He was among a handful of influential engineers whose designs formed the vital bridge between the room-size models of the mainframe era and the advent of the personal computer.
Despite Mother’s “get out of jail free†card, she was still determined to climb the wall and hack into the company’s mainframe.
He took courses, learned code and even devoted time to using an IBM mainframe computer.
Martin Goetz, who joined the computer industry in its infancy in the mid-1950s as a programmer working on Univac mainframes and who later received the first U.S. patent for software, died on Oct.
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