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ready reckoner

noun

Etymology

Coined by English grammarian and textbook writer Daniel Fenning in 1757.

  1. derived from grammarian and textbook writer Daniel Fenning in 1757

Definitions

  1. A printed book or table containing precalculated values, often multiples of given amounts.

    • Captain Brazenhead, a sword to the good, listened and learned. To the ready reckoner he was, the accounts were soon cast up.

  2. A computer program which calculates values

    A computer program which calculates values; an online calculator.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ready reckoner. 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