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datacenter

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English

Syllables
dat-a-cen-ter
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative spelling of data centre.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From data + center; as is generally true of English orthography for many compound nouns, the open compound was the original form and the solid compound gained acceptance over time. In the particular case of data center and datacenter, the 2020s were the decade when the solid variant went from IT-insider-jargon-only status to wide acceptance in general register.

Inflected Forms

datacenters (plural)

Questions

What does datacenter mean?
Alternative spelling of data centre.
Where does datacenter come from?
From data + center; as is generally true of English orthography for many compound nouns, the open compound was the original form and the solid compound gained acceptance over time. In the particular case of data center and datacenter, the 2020s were the decade when the solid variant went from IT-insider-jargon-only status to wide acceptance in general register.

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