electronic device vs personal digital assistant

personal digital assistant vs electronic device

electronic device and personal digital assistant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
electronic device	Yes	No	No	No
personal digital assistant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, personal digital assistant is a hyponym of electronic device; that is, personal digital assistant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than electronic device:

electronic device: a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically
personal digital assistant: a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc.

Other hyponyms of electronic device include answering machine, beeper, pager, defibrillator, display, video display, display adapter, display adaptor, dongle, doubler, generator, deaf-aid, hearing aid, logic element, computer mouse, mouse, multiplexer, artificial pacemaker, pacemaker, organiser, organizer, PDA, personal organiser, personal organizer, read-out, readout, repeater, digital scanner, image scanner, scanner, system clock, trackball, electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, tube, vacuum tube, effects unit, compander, fence charger, fence energizer, compressor, expander.

electronic device (noun)	personal digital assistant (noun)
a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically	a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc.

Difference between electronic device and personal digital assistant

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