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calculator

[ kal-kyuh-ley-ter ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who calculates or computes.
Also called calculating machine. a small electronic or mechanical device that performs calculations, requiring manual action for each individual operation.
a person who operates such a machine.
a set of tables that facilitates calculation.

calculator

/ ˈkælkjʊˌleɪtə /

a device for performing mathematical calculations, esp an electronic device that can be held in the hand
a person or thing that calculates
a set of tables used as an aid to calculations

calculator

An electronic device for performing automatic mathematical computations, usually controlled by a keyboard. Some are actually small computers , with limited memory, that allow the user to use simple programs .

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Latin; calculate, -tor

I used to dismantle a calculator to understand how it works.

To wit, the health insurance calculator for Southern California says a 62-year-old would pay $7,200 a year for the top plan.

If I read my calculator right, that would be 0.000001 per cent.

Was the calculator created only to pump up sales of the already multi-billion-dollar statin market?

New guidelines and a glitchy online calculator have added new confusion to the cholesterol debate.

It was round, with a small, rectangular projection for the operator's controls and calculator.

His Almanac was preferred to that of Leadbeater, or any other calculator cotemporary with himself.

Then she fed more figures into the calculator and handed the result to Ato.

Meanwhile, Nea fed rows of figures into a humming calculator.

A computerman second class was punching the readings into the small table calculator as Multhaus read off the numbers.

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