calculator.
A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.
Meaning & usage
A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.
electronic calculator; pocket calculator
The calculator on a bookkeeper's desk in the 1950s was an adding machine with mechanical guts.
A person who performs mathematical calculation.
During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.
A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
He revealed himself to be a cold-blooded calculator out to sabotage his colleagues.
A set of mathematical tables.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek χᾰ́λῐξ (khắlĭx)bor.? substratebor.? Latin calx Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin calculus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin calculō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin calculātorlbor. Middle English calkelatour English calculator In the sense of a person, from Middle English calkelatour (“a mathematician, an astrologer”), borrowed from Latin calculātor, equivalent to calculate + -or. The other meanings arose in Modern English.
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