Mainframe Computer (Noun)
Meaning
A large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The mainframe computer, named Hercules, took up an entire room on the fifth floor and provided the data processing for the entire organization.
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- A company built a massive data center that houses rows and rows of mainframe computers that provide the infrastructure to support cloud services like hosting online banking services for end users throughout the world.
- The IT department needed to upgrade the mainframe computer that handled the company's payroll to prevent it from causing any issues during the annual bonuses payout.
- The mainframe computer at the university was used for large-scale data processing and number-crunching research projects that required extreme amounts of computational power.