Term Gallery logo

Meanings of calculating machine in English

Portuguese
computador
Catalan
calculadora

A small machine that is used for mathematical calculations.

        computador

        Computer machine.

              Usage of calculating machine in English
              1
              Later he devised a calculating machine, a barometer and a hydraulic press.
              A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
              2
              The computer had a clear intellectual identity as a calculating machine.
              Wired
              3
              A calculating machine made the necessary additions both quickly and accurately.
              Proportional Representation: A Study in Methods of Election
              4
              B. Herschel Babbage was the eldest son of the well-known inventor of the calculating machine.
              The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
              5
              He showed an unfinished calculating machine to the Royal Society, which elected him a fellow.
              Wired
              6
              John Wesley was a level-headed Briton, with a mind as exact as a calculating machine.
              A History of the Moravian Church
              7
              Sinclair, Sir J.G.T., letter to: on Babbage's calculating machine.
              Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
              8
              Babbage, calculating machine, and the theory of induction.
              Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
              9
              I always thought you were a sort of calculating machine, who slept on a logarithm table.
              The Man Who Rocked the Earth
              10
              One moment it was a calculating machine, attempting dispassionately to keep up with the gouts of data.
              Perdido Street Station
              11
              When I think of him, I immediately fly to Babbage, the inventor of the famous calculating machine.
              The Romance of a Pro-Consul / Being the Personal Life and Memoir...
              12
              One moment it was a calculating machine.
              Perdido Street Station
              13
              He was again the cold, calculating machine.
              The Pawns Count
              14
              Confronted with this problem, the man and the lover disappeared, and only the mathematician and the calculating machine remained.
              The World Peril of 1910
              15
              While at Rouen he invented a calculating machine, and got a workman in the town to set it up.
              The Story of Rouen
              16
              The very idea, investing $500 on a calculating machine so it could be used by a girl!
              NY Magazine
              Translations for calculating machine