HOW TO PRONOUNCE
calculator
/kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/
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What does calculator mean?
noun
- A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.
- A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
More meanings (2)
noun
- (historical) A person who performs mathematical calculation.
- (obsolete) A set of mathematical tables.
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IPA pronunciation
/kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/
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During this time Nicholl, the calculator, looked over the minutes of their passage, and worked out figures with unparalleled dexterity.
A calculator in an observatory could not compute the position of his planet with greater accuracy.
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The lightning calculator who estimated the annual tonnage of drift-snow sweeping off Adelie Land was received as a futurist and thinker.
This skilful calculator mistakes a consequence for a principle.
He finds in one of the tablets a phrase which he interprets to mean measure-governor, and he infers from this the existence of a kind of a calculator.