calculator
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Noun (2)
- an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)Synonyms: reckonerfigurerestimatorcomputerType of expertKinds subtracter, number cruncher, statistician, adder
- a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronicSynonyms: calculating machineType of machineKinds counter, adder, adding machine, subtracter, Napier's bones, hand calculator, quipu, abacus
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Translations
Noun electronic device that performs mathematical calculations
- Spanish
- calculadora
- French
- calculatrice
- German
- Taschenrechner
- Italian
- calcolatrice
- Portuguese
- calculadora
- Turkish
- hesap makinesi
- Russian
- калькуля́тор kalʹkuljátor
- Arabic
- آلَة حَاسِبَة ʔāla ḥāsiba
- Chinese
- 计算器 jìsuànqì
- Japanese
- 電卓 dentaku
27 more languages
- Dutch
- rekenmachine
- Polish
- kalkulator
- Swedish
- kalkylator
- Greek
- αριθμομηχανή arithmomichaní
- Korean
- 계산기 gyesan'gi
- Indonesian
- kalkulator
- Vietnamese
- máy tính
- Hungarian
- számológép
- Portuguese (PT)
- calculadora
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 計算器 jìsuànqì
- Albanian
- njehsues
- Czech
- kalkulačka
- Danish
- regnemaskine
- Esperanto
- kalkulilo
- Finnish
- laskin
- Georgian
- კალკულატორი ḳalḳulaṭori
- Hebrew
- מַחְשְׁבוֹן makhshevón
- Icelandic
- reiknivél
- Latvian
- kalkulators
- Lithuanian
- kalkuliatorius
- Norwegian
- kalkulator
- Romanian
- calculator
- Scottish Gaelic
- àireamhair
- Serbo-Croatian
- digitron
- Slovak
- kalkulačka
- Swahili
- kikokotozi
- Welsh
- cyfrifiannell
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L.: cf. F. calculateur.
One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.
Ambition is no exact calculator.— Edmund Burke
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<abuse> (Or "calculator") /bit'ee boks/ A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it. The term is especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal computers such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80 or IBM PC, but the term is a general pejorative opposite of "real computer" (see Get a real computer!).
See also mess-dos, toaster, toy.
(1994-11-29)
The Jargon File
Syn. for bitty box.