microcomputer

English

1956, micro- +‎ computer.

microcomputer (plural microcomputers)

(computer hardware) A computer designed around a microprocessor, smaller than a minicomputer or a mainframe.
- 1956, Isaac Asimov, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, v 11, July 7, New York: Fantasy House, p 9:
  In recent years, it had become the hallmark of the scientist, much as the stethoscope was that of the physician and the microcomputer that of the statistician.
- 1985, Micro Communications
  The operation has installed nine Cygnet CoSystems, computerphones that send memos, letters, and even whole files from one microcomputer to another.

computer designed around a microprocessor

Armenian: միկրոհամակարգիչներ (mikrohamakargičʿner)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 微型計算機, 微型计算机 (wēixíng jìsuànjī), 微電腦 (zh), 微电脑 (zh) (wēidiànnǎo), 微機 (zh), 微机 (zh) (wēijī)
Czech: mikropočítač
Estonian: mikroarvuti
Finnish: mikrotietokone (fi), mikro (fi)
French: microordinateur (fr) m
Georgian: მიკროკომპიუტერი (miḳroḳomṗiuṭeri)
German: Mikrorechner m
Greek: μικροϋπολογιστής (el) m (mikroÿpologistís)
Hindi: सूक्ष्मसंगणक (sūkṣmasaṅgaṇak)
Hungarian: mikroszámítógép
Indonesian: komputer mikro
Inuktitut: ᖃᕆᑕᐅᔭᕋᓛᖅ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᖅᓯᐅᑦ (qaritaujaralaaq atausiqsiut)
Irish: micriríomhaire

microcomputer m (invariable)

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