PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does personal digital assistant mean? 

• PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT (noun)
  The noun PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT has 1 sense:

1. a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc.

  Familiarity information: PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

organiser; organizer; PDA; personal digital assistant; personal organiser; personal organizer

Hypernyms ("personal digital assistant" is a kind of...):

electronic device (a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically)