an electronic computer in which the input is discrete rather than continuous, consisting of combinations of numbers, letters, and other characters written in an appropriate programming language and represented internally in binary notation
Compare analog computer
digital computer in American English
US
a computer for processing data represented by discrete, localized physical signals, as the presence or absence of an electric current: the most commonly used kind of computer
see also analog computer
Examples of 'digital computer' in a sentence
digital computer
Especially enjoyable was the story of the restoration of the earliest working digital computer.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But no such limits constrain digital computers.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The oldest working digital computer clattered back to life yesterday after 20 years in storage.
The Sun (2012)
First fully operational in 1951, it was one of only about a dozen digital computers in the world.