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Eck⋅ert

[ek-ert]
–noun
John Pres⋅per [pres-per] , 1919–95, U.S. engineer and computer pioneer.
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Eck·ert   (ěk'ərt)   
American engineer who contributed to the development of ENIAC (Electronic Numeral Integrator and Calculator), the first electronic computer (1946).
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Eckert   (ěk'ərt)  Pronunciation Key 
American engineer who contributed to the development of ENIAC (Electronic Numeral Integrator and Calculator), the first electronic computer (1946). He later helped develop one of the first computers to be sold commercially.
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