Calculator

/ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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