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Slide rule   /slaɪd rul/   Listen
Slide rule

noun
1.
Analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators.  Synonym: slipstick.





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"Slide rule" Quotes from Famous Books



... And the Slide Rule; with the Theory of Trigonometry and Logarithms, including Practical Geometry, Surveying, Measuring of Timber, Cask and Malt Gauging, Heights, and Distances. By THOMAS KENTISH. In one volume, ...
— Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose
... the passengers was an English officer, Captain Wheeler, with whom we had played many games of deck cricket on the voyage. First his regulation seventy cubic feet of baggage was lowered—an extraordinary amount, for no one without the aid of a slide rule and logarithms could possibly calculate it—and then he himself made the perilous descent—without a ducking. He would next have 240 miles of train journey to Coomassie and then a walk—or rather a journey in a hammock—for another 300 miles ...
— A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman


Words linked to "Slide rule" :   analogue computer, analog computer


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