COMPUTERIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does computerize mean? 

• COMPUTERIZE (verb)
  The verb COMPUTERIZE has 3 senses:

1. provide with computers

2. store in a computer

3. control a function, process, or creation by a computer

  Familiarity information: COMPUTERIZE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPUTERIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they computerize    ... he / she / it computerizes   
Past simple: computerized   
Past participle: computerized   
-ing form: computerizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with computers

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

computerise; computerize

Context example:

Our office is fully computerized now

Hypernyms (to "computerize" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

computer (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Store in a computer

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

computerise; computerize

Context example:

computerized dictionary

Hypernyms (to "computerize" is one way to...):

hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

computer (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Control a function, process, or creation by a computer

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

computerise; computerize; cybernate

Context example:

cybernate a factory

Hypernyms (to "computerize" is one way to...):

put to work; work (cause to work)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

computer (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

computerization (the control of processes by computer)

 Context examples 

A proprietary computerized system for liquid nitrogen cryopreservation, tracking, and retrieval for stem cell samples.

(BioArchive System, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called computed tomography scan, computerized axial tomography scan, computerized tomography, and CT scan.

(CAT scan, NCI Dictionary)

When pain relief is needed, the person can receive a preset dose of pain medicine by pressing a button on a computerized pump that is connected to a small tube in the body.

(Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia, NCI Dictionary)

A computerized library of tests designed for baseline screening and serial assessment of neurocognitive function.

(Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics, NCI Thesaurus)

A computerized system for tracking the status and location of a patient as they move through a medical facility.

(Patient Tracking System, NCI Thesaurus)

In most patients, measurement of ctDNA enabled detection of microscopic disease before it could be seen on computerized tomography (CT) scans, which is the current standard for disease assessment.

(Circulating tumor DNA in blood can predict recurrence of the most common type of lymphoma, NIH)

Participants then ate and drank as much as they wanted from computerized vending machines.

(Brain stimulation limits calories consumed in adults with obesity, NIH)

Although it can be applied to any set of information the term was invented to refer to computerized data, and is used almost exclusively in computing.

(Database, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called CAT scan, computed tomography scan, computerized tomography, and CT scan.

(Computerized axial tomography scan, NCI Dictionary)

For the study, Segaert and her colleagues gave a computerized language test to 28 healthy British men and women whose average age was 67 to 70.

(Exercise May Help Seniors with Word, Memory Problems, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)