computerize

To convert a manual function or system into a computer system.

Verb

  1. To convert a manual function or system into a computer system.
  2. To equip with a computer or a computer system.
  3. To enter data into such a system.
  4. To become computerlike.
    • I wonder how human she is. These are the days when computers humanize and humans computerize. - 2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

Origin

Etymology tree Latin computārelbor. French computerbor. English compute Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English computer Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English computerize From computer + -ize.

Forms

computerizes computerizing computerized computerise

Related

computerization computerized

Derived

computerizability computerizable computerizer