"computant" meaning in English

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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1861, Congressional Serial Set, page 347:",
          "text": "And for this purpose I would suggest that graduates assigned to the topographical corps should be retained at the Academy at least one year to act as assistants and computants at the observatory […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "A person employed to carry out computations."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "computation",
          "computation"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A person employed to carry out computations."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "computant"
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1861, Congressional Serial Set, page 347:",
          "text": "And for this purpose I would suggest that graduates assigned to the topographical corps should be retained at the Academy at least one year to act as assistants and computants at the observatory […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A person employed to carry out computations."
      ],
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        [
          "computation",
          "computation"
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        "(obsolete) A person employed to carry out computations."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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  "word": "computant"
}