computerizev.
/kəmˈpjuːtərʌɪz/, U.S. /kəmˈpjudəˌraɪz/ transitive. To prepare or adapt (a system, activity, function, etc.) to operate or be operated by computer; to equip with a computer or computers. Also: to convert (information, text, etc.) into a form which can be stored or processed by computer.
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society > computing and information technology > [verb (transitive)]
computerize1960
virtualize1990
1960 Managem. Sci. 6 360 Chapters 8 and 9 present an industrial sales management game and a top operating management game. Both of these are probably better computerized.
1964 Bookseller 19 Dec. 2296/1 To computerize our invoicing and accounts departments in the hope of maintaining a faster flow of invoices.
1984 P. Larkin Further Requirements (2002) iv. 361 A middle-aged Angry Young Man with a writer's block caused by having his novels computerized.
1995 New Scientist 11 Mar. 21/1 He says that computerising the FBI's fingerprints would consume 2000 terabytes of computer storage space.
2003 Boston Herald (Nexis) 5 Dec. 37 Of the 423 doctors who responded to the survey, 85 percent said prescription-writing should be computerized.
Derivatives
comˈputerizable adj. able to be computerized; suitable for computerization.
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1964 Science 8 May 657/1 Another computerizable procedure concerns the ‘invisible colleges’ composed of the hundred or so really active and knowledgeable in any particular part of the research front of science.
1970 A. Cameron et al. Computers & Old Eng. Concordances 8 The availability of certain machines governs what an editor-programmer tries to do with computerizable texts.
2001 P. M. S. Hacker Wittgenstein ii. 49 This transformation coincided with..the emergence of Chomsky's novel, eminently computerizable, theory of syntax.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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