Example sentences for: ordinateur

How can you use “ordinateur” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some of them are real gems: tableur (`tabular operator') for `spreadsheet' is concise, precise, and original; baladeur (`stroller') for `walkman,' although basically a loan translation, adds a fresh nuance to the imagery; best of all perhaps is ordinateur for `computer,' the French term (current since the 1960s, adopted by the Dictionnaire in 1983) meaning something like `methodically arranging agent.

  • ' Since the machine is not, as generally believed in former years, a new kind of calculator but rather a high-speed symbol manipulator, ordinateur hits the mark.


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