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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɛsktɒpˌkəmˈpjuːtə/
Noun
desktop computer (plural desktop computers)
- A computer of a size designed to be used on a desk or table, as opposed to larger machines, such as mainframes, and smaller machines, such as laptops and palmtops.
- Synonym: desktop
- Hyponym: all-in-one
Related terms
Translations
a computer of a size designed to be used on a desk
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 桌上電腦／桌上电脑 (coek3 soeng6 din6 nou5)
- Mandarin: 桌機／桌机 (zhuōjī), 檯式機／台式机 (táishìjī) or 枱式機／枱式机 (táishìjī), 台式机 (táishìjī) (mainland China), 檯式電腦／台式电脑 or 枱式電腦／枱式电脑, 台式电脑 (táishì diànnǎo) (mainland China), 桌上型電腦／桌上型电脑 (zh) (zhuōshàngxíng diànnǎo) (Taiwan), 桌面電腦／桌面电脑 (zhuōmiàn diànnǎo) (Taiwan)
- Danish: stationær computer
- Finnish: pöytätietokone
- French: ordinateur de bureau (fr) m
- Georgian: სამაგიდო კომპიუტერი (samagido ḳomṗiuṭeri)
- German: Desktop-Computer m
- Greek: επιτραπέζιος υπολογιστής m (epitrapézios ypologistís)
- Hungarian: asztali számítógép (hu)
- Icelandic: borðtölva f
- Ido: surtabla komputero
- Irish: ríomhaire deisce m
- Italian: computer fisso m
- Japanese: デスクトップパソコン (ja) (desukutoppupasokon), デスクトップコンピューター (desukutoppukonpyūtā)
- Polish: blaszak (pl) m (colloquial)
- Portuguese: computador de mesa (pt) m, computador de secretária (pt) m
- Russian: насто́льный компью́тер (ru) m (nastólʹnyj kompʹjútɛr)
- Slovak: stolný počítač
- Spanish: computadora de escritorio f, ordenador de escritorio m, ordenador de sobremesa m
- Turkish: masaüstü bilgisayar
- Ukrainian: насті́льний комп'ю́тер m (nastílʹnyj kompʺjúter)
- Vietnamese: máy tính để bàn (vi)
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