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tabulator

noun

Etymology

From tabulate + -or.

  1. derived from *teh₂-✻
  2. derived from tabulātus — “having a floor; floored”
  3. suffixed as tabulator — “tabulate + -or”

Definitions

  1. A person who counts or tabulates things.

  2. The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.

  3. A tab character.

    • You can put a tabulator in all those places where a space is allowed. A tabulator character corresponds to, for example, 4 spaces in the program editor.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on…

      An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA