mainframe computer

1. 1.

   a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room

   Synonymsmainframe

   Broaderdigital computer

   Narrowersupercomputer

Questions about mainframe computer

What does mainframe computer mean?

mainframe computer means "a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room".

What is another word for mainframe computer?

Close synonyms include mainframe. 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 mainframe computer a common word?

mainframe 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.