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Slide rule   Listen
noun
Slide rule  n.  A thin, flat calculating device consisting of a fixed outer piece and a movable middle piece. Both pieces are graduated in such a way (as, by a logarithmic scale) that multiplication, division, and other mathematical functions of an input variable may be rapidly determined by movement of the middle pieces to a location on one scale corresponding to the input value, and reading off the result on another scale. A movable window with a hairline assists in alignment of the scales. This device has been largely superseded by the electronic calculator, which has a greater precision than the slide rule. Also called colloquially slipstick.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Slide rule" Quotes from Famous Books



... working his slide rule) Upwards of eight hundred thousand, I should say. I can provide you with an exact figure if ...
— If at First You Don't... • John Brudy

... found the young inventor hard at work in his private laboratory. He was tapping his head with his slide rule and frowning at a blackboard scrawled with equations when Bud dropped in ...
— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton



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



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