The phrase "a form of computer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different types or categories of computers or computer-like devices.
Example: "Smartphones can be considered a form of computer due to their processing capabilities and software applications."
Alternatives: "a type of computer" or "a variant of computer".
"Spam" is no longer a ham product but a form of computer junk-mail; "toast" refers not to a breakfast choice but to a state of being dead or burned out; and "cookies" aren't fattening, chocolate-chip-studded snacks but tiny files containing information about our computers that can be used by advertisers to track users' online interests and tastes.
"Nelson" allows you to read a text while simultaneously checking the sources and comparing other material on the same topic; "Coupland" links your reading tastes to a social network, so you can see what friends are reading and generally keep up with the Joneses; while "Alice", "an interactive reading experience", turns the book into a form of computer game.
Although they do not own mainstream broadcast networks, they are broadcasters, a fact they do not seem understand, and their emails contain a form of computer virus that, instead of destroying files, destroys the truth.
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a form of computer simulation in which atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a period of time by approximations of known physics, giving a view of the motion of the particles.
Electronic voting, a form of computer-mediated voting in which voters make their selections with the aid of a computer.
Twenty-five yeafterftheythey were invented as a form of computer-geek shorthand, emoticons — an open-source form of pop art that has evolved into a quasi-accepted form of punctuation — are now ubiquitous.
Laws have been enacted to protect privacy, infrastructure, people, companies, and anything that uses a computer or any form of computer technology.
A survey of American management consultancies, carried out by Consultants News in March 1996, found that more than a third did not use any form of computer networking.When it comes to producing those ground-breaking ideas, consultancies rely on a variety of techniques.
His interest in the sea, roused aboard his yacht, the Lalla Rookh, resulted in a number of patents: a compass that was adopted by the British Admiralty; a form of analog computer for measuring tides in a harbour and for calculating tide tables for any hour, past or future; and sounding equipment.
He argues that the human brain is a form of biological computer, and that consciousness arises from information processing, since data processing is the overriding purpose of our inner neuronal world.
Goldberg, who died in 1997, used a pioneering form of computer modeling to engineer a tour de force: an open, seven-story maternity ward inside the cloverleaf shell, cantilevered 45 feet from the supporting core.
