Spreadsheet

Quick meaning: Spreadsheet is a noun meaning (computing) A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.

Meaning

(computing) A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.

More Meanings

1. A document created with such an application.
2. (transitive) To model or compute by means of a spreadsheet.
3. (dated) A sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.

Example Sentences

For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code.

A little later in this chapter, we'll run through some of the most common methods journalists use to analyze the material they gather and store in spreadsheets.

The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.

If you'd spreadsheeted the cascade charts and sorted it by each name's sphere of influence, then the people Carrie Johnstone sent the police to get constituted a big chunk of the middle third—people who “commanded” maybe four of five others—and maybe 10 percent of the top influencers.

Word Forms

• spreadsheets
• spreadsheeting
• spreadsheeted

Synonyms for spreadsheet

Depending on context, synonyms include worksheet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include calculator, computation, calculating, calculation, calc, worksheet.

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