calculator
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Sistem
Etymology
In the sense of a person, from Srednji Engleski calkelatour (“mathematician, astrologer”), borrowed from Latinski calculātor, equivalent to calculate + -or. The other meanings arose in Modern English.
Pronunciation
- MFA(ključ): /ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)/
- (General American) MFA(ključ): /kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/, [ˈkʰæɫ.kjəˌleɪ̯.ɾɚ]
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Noun
calculator (plural calculators)
- A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations.
- (dated) A person who performs mathematical calculation.
- 2020, Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future, page 145:
- 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.
- A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
- Šablon:RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Alice
- 1858, John Cumming, Thy Word is Truth: an apology for Christianity, page 112:
- 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.
- (obsolete) A set of mathematical tables.
Synonyms
- (electronic device): electronic calculator, pocket calculator
- (mechanical device): adding machine
- (person who performs mathematical calculations): computer (dated)
- (person who schemes): plotter, schemer
- (mathematical tables): ready reckoner, tables
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
electronic device that performs mathematical calculations
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mechanical device that performs mathematical calculations
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dated: a person who performs mathematical calculations
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person who calculates (in the sense of scheming)
set of mathematical tables
See also
- ready reckoner
- slide rule
- tables
- calculators na Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
References
Cebuano
Etymology
From Engleski calculator.
Pronunciation
- Hifenacija: cal‧cu‧la‧tor
Noun
calculator
- calculator (device)
- Sinonimi: calcu, kalkulador
Etymology
From calculō (“I calculate”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
calculator
- calculator, bookkeeper, accountant
- computer, one versed in/teacher of arithmetic
Declension
Synonyms
Verb
calculātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of calculō
- "thou shalt be calculated, thou shalt be computed"
- (figurative) "thou shalt be considered as, thou shalt be esteemed"
- third-person singular future passive imperative of calculō
- "it shall be calculated, it shall be computed"
- (figurative) "she shall be considered as, she shall be esteemed"
References
- “calculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calculator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- calculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- “calculator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “calculator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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Rumunski
Rumunski
Etymology
Pozajmljeno od Francuski calculateur; compare also English and Latin calculator. Equivalent to calcula + -tor.
Noun
calculator n (plural calculatoare)
- calculator (device)
- computer
Declension
declension of calculator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) calculator | calculatorul | (niște) calculatoare | calculatoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) calculator | calculatorului | (unor) calculatoare | calculatoarelor |
vocative | calculatorule | calculatoarelor |