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Calculator   /kˈælkjəlˌeɪtər/   Listen
Calculator

noun
1.
An expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines).  Synonyms: computer, estimator, figurer, reckoner.
2.
A small machine that is used for mathematical calculations.  Synonym: calculating machine.



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"Calculator" Quotes from Famous Books



... is which supports the multitude of cooks, pastry-cooks, confectioners, etc., who employ workmen of every kind, and who perpetually put in circulation, an amount of money which the shrewdest calculator cannot imagine. ...
— The Physiology of Taste • Brillat Savarin

... or farewell, Asher crawled inside his tube. The door was closed and he fastened it from inside. For a moment, wild panic assailed him. But he fought it off, becoming again less the feeling human and more the cold calculator of advanced science. The light from outside, coming in through the windows of the Miner, was shut off. The long steel cage clanked against the sides of the special casing in the well, and Blaine Asher was on his trip into a lower world never before ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various

... moment he had a sharp prescience of the unwisdom of his rejection. A cold calculator of chance and probabilities would have reckoned that a half hour of assuagement here would have been a wiser investment of his mortal moments than any ...
— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

... companion, with "a dry caustic manner, and an irresistible stammer" ('Life of Rev, F. Hodgson', vol. i. p. 204), Davies was, during the Regency and afterwards, a popular member of fashionable society. A daring gambler and shrewd calculator, he at one time won heavily at the gaming-tables. On June 10, 1814, as he told Hobhouse, he won L6065 at Watier's Club at Macao. Captain Cronow, in his 'Reminiscences' (ed. 1860, vol. i. pp. 93-96), sketches ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, Vol. 1 • Lord Byron, Edited by Rowland E. Prothero



Words linked to "Calculator" :   subtracter, counter, tabulator, Napier's rods, totalizer, adding machine, calculate, statistician, expert, quipu, actuary, number cruncher, adder, Napier's bones, abacus, machine, totaliser



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