VON NEUMANN MACHINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does von Neumann machine mean? 

• VON NEUMANN MACHINE (noun)
  The noun VON NEUMANN MACHINE has 1 sense:

1. any digital computer incorporating the ideas of stored programs and serial counters that were proposed in 1946 by von Neumann and his colleagues

  Familiarity information: VON NEUMANN MACHINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VON NEUMANN MACHINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any digital computer incorporating the ideas of stored programs and serial counters that were proposed in 1946 by von Neumann and his colleagues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("von Neumann machine" is a kind of...):

digital computer (a computer that represents information by numerical (binary) digits)