English
WOTD – 2 December 2023
Etymology
From computer + literacy.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
computer literacy (usually uncountable, plural computer literacies)
- (computing) The ability to operate a personal computer, including its associated hardware and software (but not necessarily to understand the underlying electronics or a programming language). [from late 20th c.]
- Synonyms: (informal) computeracy, cyberliteracy
- Antonym: computer illiteracy
Translations
ability to operate a personal computer
- Arabic: إلمام بالحاسوب ?
- Azerbaijani: kompüter savadlılığı
- Bengali: কম্পিউটার শিক্ষা (kompiuṭar śikkha)
- Catalan: alfabetització informàtica f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 計算機素養 / 计算机素养 (jìsuànjīsùyǎng)
- Czech: počítačová gramotnost f
- Dutch: digitale geletterdheid f
- Esperanto: komputila klero
- Finnish: tietokoneen käyttötaito, tietokonelukutaito
- French: alphabétisme informatique f
- German: Computerkompetenz f, EDV-Kenntnisse f pl, Informatikkenntnisse f pl
- Hungarian: információs írástudás
- Indonesian: literasi komputer
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- Japanese: コンピュータ・リテラシー (konpyūta riterashī)
- Kazakh: компьютерлік сауаттылық (kompüterlık sauattylyq)
- Korean: 컴퓨터 소양 (keompyuteo soyang)
- Kyrgyz: компьютердик сабаттуулук (kompyuterdik sabattuuluk)
- Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
- Malayalam: കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ സാക്ഷരത (kampyūṭṭaṟ sākṣarata)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: grunnleggende digitale ferdigheter c pl
- Persian: سواد رایانهای
- Polish: zdolność do komputerów f
- Portuguese: alfabetização digital f
- Russian: компью́терная гра́мотность f (kompʹjúternaja grámotnostʹ)
- Sinhalese: පරිගණක සාක්ෂරතාව (parigaṇaka sākṣaratāwa)
- Slovak: počítačová gramotnosť f
- Spanish: alfabetización digital f, alfabetismo informático m
- Swedish: datorkunskap(er) (sv) c, datorvana c
- Turkish: bilgisayar okuryazarlığı (tr)
- Ukrainian: комп'ю́терна гра́мотність f (kompʺjúterna hrámotnistʹ)
- Urdu: کمپیوٹر تعلیم ?
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See also
References
- ^ “computer literacy, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
- ^ “computer literacy, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
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