Meaning of Calculator | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; sometimes, an electronic one specifically.
2. A person who performs mathematical calculation.
   historical
3. A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
4. A set of mathematical tables.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“electronic calculator;   pocket calculator”

“The calculator on a bookkeeper's desk in the 1950s was an adding machine with mechanical guts.”

“I told him to hand me a calculator and he jokingly placed an adding machine at my side.”

“During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.”

“First, many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory: they're all too subject to herd behavior, to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic.”

“Near-synonyms: schemer, plotter; manipulator”

“He revealed himself to be a cold-blooded calculator out to sabotage his colleagues.”

“Talk not thus, I implore you, Evelyn: do not imagine me the worldly calculator that my enemies deem me.”

“You have in the merchant the shrewd calculator of probable contingencies; we shall see that we have in the prophet the absolute proclaimer of necessary and inevitable facts.”

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