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automatic data-processing equipment [1 record]

Record 1 2024-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Hardware
  • Applications of Automation
DEF

Equipment, or interconnected systems or subsystems of equipment, that is used to automatically perform operations on data, such as the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception, of data.

Key term(s)
  • automatic data-processing equipment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel informatique
  • Automatisation et applications
DEF

Machine ou groupe de machines interconnectées consistant en dispositifs d'entrée, de mémoire, de computation, de contrôle et de sortie, qui font appel à un ensemble de circuits électroniques de l'élément principal de computation pour exécuter automatiquement des opérations arithmétiques et logiques au moyen d'instructions programmées mises en mémoire à l'intérieur ou contrôlées de l'extérieur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo físico de computadora (Hardware)
  • Automatización y aplicaciones
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