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Calculator

Noun CEFR B2
ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)

Definitions

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

Equivalents

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አማርኛካልኩሌተር
Esperantokalkulilo
Gàidhligàireamhair
Հայերենհաշվիչ
Bahasa Indonesiakalkulatormesin hitung
Íslenskareiknivél
Қазақ тілікалькулятор
Kurdîحساب
Slovenčinakalkulačka
Kiswahilikikokotozi
Українськакалькулятор

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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