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computerphone

noun

Etymology

From computer + phone.

  1. derived from φωνή — “sound”
  2. compounded as computerphone — “computer + phone”

Definitions

  1. A kind of personal computer with telecommunication features.

    • The operation has installed nine Cygnet CoSystems, computerphones that send memos, letters, and even whole files from one microcomputer to another.
    • Entrepreneurial firms such as Zaisan Corp. introduced reasonably priced, powerful computerphones in 1984. Other firms followed.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for computerphone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA