analog computer
noun
: a computer that operates with numbers represented by directly measurable quantities (such as voltages or rotations) compare digital computer, hybrid computer
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One example of an analog computer is a mechanical clock.
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New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
The mind actually functions more like an analog computer.
—Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Bush, while on the faculty at MIT, designed and built a pioneering analog computer.
—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025
Old-school analog computers had used clunky patch cords on plug boards.
—Charles Platt, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
Beginning in the early 1950s, Gilbert was involved in developing analog computer and aircraft simulation research programs at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2019
This is not the plot of Fail-Safe, where the rogue B-52 is dispatched by an analog computer glitch, and which the authors claimed to have conceived in 1957.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
The mind actually functions more like an analog computer.
—Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Bush, while on the faculty at MIT, designed and built a pioneering analog computer.
—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025
Old-school analog computers had used clunky patch cords on plug boards.
—Charles Platt, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
Beginning in the early 1950s, Gilbert was involved in developing analog computer and aircraft simulation research programs at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2019
This is not the plot of Fail-Safe, where the rogue B-52 is dispatched by an analog computer glitch, and which the authors claimed to have conceived in 1957.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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