Meaning | An elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform. |
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Synonym | machine operation |
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Narrower | floating-point operation, flop | An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers |
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retrieval | (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory |
storage | (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic ... / magnetic tape or disk |
Broader | operation | (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction) |
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