Computerises

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To convert processes into an electronic format for automation
2. Changes manual or analog procedures to run through digital computer systems
3. Adopts computerized technology to handle tasks formerly done by hand or other means

Etymology: "Computerise" is the British spelling of "computerize," and the word is simply a verb formed by adding the suffix "-ise" (or "-ize") to "computer." The "-ise" ending comes from Greek "-izein," which Latin and then French carried into English as a way of turning nouns into verbs meaning "to make into, to treat with, or to subject to." Because of this, "computerise" follows the same pattern as older verbs such as "modernise" or "industrialise." The noun "computer" came first and originally referred to a person. In the 1600s, a "computer" was someone who performed calculations by hand, and the word was derived from the Latin "computare," meaning "to reckon together." Only in the 1940s did the word come to mean the machine. The verb "computerise" followed in the 1950s and 1960s, as businesses and governments began replacing paper ledgers and manual calculations with electronic machines, so the word records that shift in work from human reckoners to machines.

Synonyms: automates, digitizes, programs, systematizes

Antonyms: manualize, decomputerize