hand-held computer

1. 1.

   a portable battery-powered computer small enough to be carried in your pocket

   Synonymshand-held microcomputer

   Broaderportable computer

Questions about hand-held computer

What does hand-held computer mean?

hand-held computer means "a portable battery-powered computer small enough to be carried in your pocket".

What is another word for hand-held computer?

Close synonyms include hand-held microcomputer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hand-held computer a common word?

hand-held computer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.