Reckonmaster
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Reckonmaster is a noun meaning (rare, now historical) A mathematician or arithmetician.
Meaning
(rare, now historical) A mathematician or arithmetician.
Example Sentences
For the common Logist, Reckenmaster, or Arithmeticien, in hys vsing of Numbers: of an Vnit, imagineth lesse partes: and calleth them Fractions.
The old choirboy schools still performed their service for the sons of some artisans and petty traders, and more important, the numbers of vernacular schoolteachers and reckonmasters multiplied.
The reckonmasters now had the opportunity to consolidate these favorable associations. Despite their novelty, the arithmetics just described could not fill all the needs of wholesale merchants, bankers, and others with extensive commercial activity.
Word Forms
- reckonmasters
- reckon-master
- reckenmaster
- reckmaster
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include reckoner, counter, calculist, calculator, arithmancer, numerist.
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