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supercomputer
A computer that, in its day, is faster than any contemporary conventional computer. Supercomputers are typically used for enormous number-crunching tasks such as weather-forecasting, simulations of fusion experiments or galaxy evolution, design of cars and planes, and code-cracking.
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