- 1nB1
/kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/
the work of using computers — as a job, as an industry, or as a subject that you study at school or college.
資訊；電腦應用
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Think of 'working with computers' taken as one whole thing you can point at and name — not this laptop or that program, but the activity itself: what you do all day at that job, the industry made of everyone who does it, and the subject you sit down to study at school.
可以想成把「用電腦做事」整件事打包起來、給它一個名字——指的不是你手上這台筆電，也不是某個程式，而是那個活動本身。同…更多收起
可以想成把「用電腦做事」整件事打包起來、給它一個名字——指的不是你手上這台筆電，也不是某個程式，而是那個活動本身。同一個字可以是你的工作（She works in computing 她做資訊這一行）、可以是一整個產業，也可以是學校課表上的一門科目。中文的「資訊」剛好也有這種伸縮性：既是行業，也是學科。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
computingnoun/kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/
- 1
The process or act of calculation.
- 2
The use of a computer or computers.
- Home computing includes children accessing information for educational purposes, parents accessing information for recreational purposes, users working from home, retired people 'silver surfers' that use computers for keeping in touch via e-mail, the Internet and through possible on-line clubs and societies.
- 3
The study of computers and computer programming.
- This course will cover several major fields of computing.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。