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mainframer

noun

Etymology

From mainframe + -er.

  1. derived from *promo-✻ — “front, forward”
  2. inherited from *framjaną✻ — “to further, promote, perform”
  3. inherited from *frammjan✻
  4. inherited from framian
  5. inherited from framen
  6. compounded as mainframe — “main + frame”
  7. suffixed as mainframer — “mainframe + er”

Definitions

  1. One who works with mainframe computers.

    • The mainframers will now have to either design or buy an interface for their systems that looks like the IBM interface.

The neighborhood

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