calculator
noun/ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)//kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/US
Etymology
In the sense of a person, from Middle English calkelatour (“a mathematician, an astrologer”), borrowed from Latin calculātor, equivalent to calculate + -or. The other meanings arose in Modern English.
- derived from calculātor
Definitions
A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations
A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.
- electronic calculator; pocket calculator
- The calculator on a bookkeeper's desk in the 1950s was an adding machine with mechanical guts.
- I told him to hand me a calculator and he jokingly placed an adding machine at my side.
A person who performs mathematical calculation.
- During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.
- First, many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory: they're all too subject to herd behavior, to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic.
A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
- Near-synonyms: schemer, plotter; manipulator
- He revealed himself to be a cold-blooded calculator out to sabotage his colleagues.
- Talk not thus, I implore you, Evelyn: do not imagine me the worldly calculator that my enemies deem me.
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A set of mathematical tables.
The neighborhood
- neighborcalculate
- neighborready reckoner
- neighborslide rule
- neighbortable
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for calculator. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA