Computerising

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The act of converting methods or processes to use computer technology for automation
2. Transforming manual or analog tasks into digital operations controlled by computers
3. Changing an existing system to function through computer-based technology instead of traditional means

Etymology: Before machines, a computer was a person whose job was reckoning sums. The English "compute" comes from Latin "computare," meaning to reckon together, built from "com-" (together) and "putare" (to think or count). It reached English through French "computer," and the older sense of a human calculator lasted alongside the later machine sense. The ending is a separate story. "-ise" comes from Greek "-izein," which passed through Late Latin "-izare" and Middle French "-iser" into English, where it turns a noun or adjective into a verb meaning to make or change something into a particular form. Added to "computer," it gives the sense of changing a task or system over to computers.

Synonyms: digitizing, automating, systematizing, automating processes, technologizing

Antonyms: manual, uncomputerized