2) analog computer. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A computer in which numerical data are represented by measurable physical variables, such as electrical voltage....

3) computer. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...engineering paths, producing two distinct types of computer-analog and digital. An analog computer operates on continuously varying data; a digital computer performs...

4) computer graphics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...computer graphics, the transfer of pictorial data into and out of a computer. Using analog-to-digital conversion techniques, a variety of devices-such as curve tracers,...

5) analogue computer. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Variant of analog computer....

6) differential analyzer. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A mechanical or electronic analog computer used to solve especially complicated differential equations....

7) 1930. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...and his associates placed into operation a "differential analyzer," the first modern analog computer. 1 1931 Ernest O. Lawrence (1901-58) invented the cyclotron,...

8) modem. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...transmit and receive digital data over a communications line normally used for analog signals. A modem attached to a computer converts digital data to an analog signal...

9) analogue. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...length, width, voltage, or pressure. 2. often analog Computer Science Of or relating to an analog computer. French, analogous, analogue, from Medieval Latin analogus,...

10) Bush, Vannevar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...large electrical networks. He is best known for his design of the differential analyzer, an analog computer that could solve differential equations with as many as...