mainframe
Portuguese, noun
mainframe is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “mainframe (large, powerful computer connected to terminals)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver macrocomputador”.
What does mainframe mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver macrocomputador
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mainframe
- mainframes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mainframe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mainframe in Portuguese?
mainframe appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).