mainframe

1 a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room [syn: mainframe computer]

2 (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing; the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached [syn: central processing unit, CPU, C.P.U., central processor, processor]

English

Noun

1. A large, powerful computer able to manage very many simultaneous tasks and communicate with very many connected terminals; used by large, complex organizations (such as banks and supermarkets) where continuously sustained operation is vital

Mainframe may refer to one of the following:

• Mainframe computer, large data processing systems
• Mainframe Entertainment, a Canadian computer animation and design company.
• Mainframe is the city that the CGI cartoon ReBoot takes place in.
• Mainframe (band), a 1980s Electropop band
• Mainframe is the name of two fictional characters from Marvel Comics
  • Mainframe (comics) appears in the series A-Next
  • Mainframe appears in the Guardians of the Galaxy series
• Mainframe (Transformers) is An Autobot character in the Transformers series.
• A character in the G.I. Joe universe.
• A character from the game Gunman Chronicles.