computer science

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

computer science (usually uncountable, plural computer sciences)

1. The study of computers and their architecture, languages, and applications, in all aspects, as well as the mathematical structures that relate to computers and computation.

Synonyms

• computing, datalogy
• comp sci, CS

Translations

study of computers and their architecture

• Afrikaans: rekenaarwetenskap (af)
• Albanian: shkencë kompjuterike f
• Arabic: عِلْم الْحَاسُوب m (ʕilm al-ḥāsūb), حَاسُوبِيَّات pl (ḥāsūbiyyāt), عِلْم الْكَمْبْيُوتَر m (ʕilm al-kambyūtar)
• Armenian: ինֆորմատիկա (hy) (informatika)
• Azerbaijani: informatika (az)
• Belarusian: інфарма́тыка f (infarmátyka)
• Bengali: কম্পিউটার বিজ্ঞান (kompiuṭar biggên)
• Breton: urzhiataerezh (br) m, kompoderezh (br) m
• Bulgarian: информа́тика (bg) f (informátika)
• Burmese: ကွန်ပျူတာသိပ္ပံပညာ (kwanpyutasippampa.nya)
• Catalan: informàtica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電腦科學 / 电脑科学 (din⁶ nou⁵ fo¹ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 電腦科學 / 电脑科学 (zh) (diànnǎo kēxué), 計算機科學 / 计算机科学 (zh) (jìsuànjī kēxué)

• Czech: informatika (cs) f
• Danish: datalogi (da) c
• Dutch: informatica (nl) f, computerwetenschap (nl) f, computerwetenschappen (nl) f pl
• Esperanto: komputiko, komputoscienco, informa scienco
• Estonian: arvutiteadus, informaatika
• Finnish: tietojenkäsittelytiede (fi)
• French: informatique (fr) f
• Georgian: ინფორმატიკა (inpormaṭiḳa), კომპიუტერული მეცნიერება (ḳomṗiuṭeruli mecniereba)
• German: Informatik (de) f, Computerwissenschaft (de) f
• Greek: πληροφορική (el) f (pliroforikí)
• Hebrew: מַדְּעֵי הַמַּחְשֵׁב (he) m pl (mad'éi hamakhshév)
• Hindi: कंप्यूटर विज्ञान m (kampyūṭar vijñān), संगणिकी f (saṅgṇikī), संगणन शास्त्र m (saṅgṇan śāstra), संगणक विज्ञान m (saṅgṇak vijñān), संगणन सिद्धान्त m (saṅgṇan siddhānt), कंप्यूटर-साइंस f (kampyūṭar-sāins)
• Hungarian: informatika (hu), számítástudomány (hu)
• Icelandic: tölvunarfræði (is) f
• Ido: informatiko (io), komputocienco
• Indonesian: ilmu komputer, informatika (id)
• Irish: ríomheolaíocht f, eolaíocht ríomhaireachta f
• Italian: informatica (it) f
• Japanese: 情報科学 (ja) (じょうほうかがく, jōhōkagaku), コンピュータサイエンス (ja) (konpyūta-saiensu), 計算機科学 (ja) (けいさんきかがく, keisanki kagaku), コンピュータ科学 (コンピュータかがく, konpyūta kagaku)
• Kannada: ಗಣಕ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ (gaṇaka vijñāna)
• Kazakh: информатика (informatika)
• Khmer: វិទ្យាសាស្ត្រកុំព្យូទ័រ (vityiəsaah kompyuutɔə)
• Korean: 컴퓨터 과학 (keompyuteo gwahak), 전산학(電算學) (ko) (jeonsanhak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kompûterzanî (ku), zanista kompûteran

• Kyrgyz: информатика (ky) (informatika)
• Lao: ວິ​ທະ​ຍາ​ສາດ​ຄອມ​ພິວ​ເຕີ (wi tha nyā sāt khǭm phiu tœ̄)
• Latin: informatica
• Latvian: datorzinātne f, informātika f
• Lithuanian: informatika (lt) f
• Macedonian: информатика f (informatika)
• Malay: sains penkomputeran, sains komputer (ms)
• Maltese: informatika, xjenza kompjuteriżata
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: компьютерын ухаан (kompʹjüteryn uxaan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: informatikk (no) m

• Pashto: کمپیوټر ساینس m (kampyūṭar sāyns)
• Persian: عُلومِ رایانِه ('olum-e râyâne), عُلومِ کامْپْیوتِر ('olum-e kâmpyuter)
• Polish: informatyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ciência da computação (pt) f (Brazil), ciências da computação f (Portugal), informática (pt) f
• Romanian: știința calculatoarelor f, știința computerelor f, informatică (ro) f
• Russian: информа́тика (ru) f (informátika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рачунарство n, рачунарска знаност f, информа̀тика f

  Roman: računarstvo (sh) n, računarska znanost f, informàtika (sh) f

• Sindhi: ڳڻپيوڪيات (sd) f
• Slovak: počítačová veda f, informatika (sk) f
• Slovene: računalništvo n, informatika f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: informatika f

• Spanish: informática (es) f, computación (es) f, ciencia de la computación f, ciencias computacionales f pl
• Swedish: datavetenskap (sv) c, datalogi (sv) c
• Tagalog: panuusing agham, agham panpanuos
• Tajik: информатика (tg) (informatika), улуми компютерӣ (ulum-i kompyuteri)
• Tamil: kanipori arivial
• Tatar: информатика (informatika)
• Thai: วิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์ (th) (wít-tá-yaa-gaan-kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə)
• Turkish: bilgisayar bilimi (tr)
• Turkmen: informatika (tk)
• Ukrainian: інформа́тика (uk) f (informátyka)
• Urdu: عِلْمِ کَمْپْیُوٹَر m ('ilm-i kampyūṭar), کَمْپْیُوٹَر سائِنْس f (kampyūṭar sāins)
• Uyghur: كومپيۇتېر ئىلمى (kompyutër ilmi)
• Uzbek: informatika (uz)
• Vietnamese: khoa học máy tính (vi)
• Welsh: cyfrifiadureg (cy) f

See also

• algorithm
• data structure
• informatics
• information science
• information theory
• mathematics

Further reading

• computer science on Wikipedia.Wikipedia