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Meanings of mechanical calculator in English

Russian
вычислительная машина
Portuguese
máquina calculadora
Spanish
calculadora mecanica
Catalan
calculadora mecànica
Wikidata

Mechanical device for arithmetic operations.

        вычислительная машина
        Synonyms
        Examples for "calculator"
        Examples for "calculator"
        1
        Visit the UN Population Fund's detailed population calculator, 7 billion and me.
        BBC
        2
        A subsidy calculator from the Kaiser Family Foundation is available at: here.
        Reuters
        3
        A Breakingviews calculator shows how longer odds of success might hurt investors.
        Reuters
        4
        A new Breakingviews calculator shows something much closer to earth is merited.
        Reuters
        5
        There's a AWS calculator to help you figure out your own costs.
        Wired
        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
        Usage of mechanical calculator in English
        1
        The first astronomical calculator The world's oldest surviving mechanical calculator is the Antikythera Mechanism.
        The South African
        2
        She also saw someone with a strange mechanical calculator which had scores of tiny cogwheels.
        Alice in quantumland: an allegory of quantum physics
        3
        Trained as a mathematician, Pascal (1623-1662) invented among other things the world's first mechanical calculator.
        The Irish Times
        4
        She was the daughter of the poet Byron, a mathematical prodigy, and the world's first computer programmer (for the world's first computer, Babbage's mechanical calculator).
        The Irish Times
        5
        Place the mechanical calculator at one end and the Cray XE6 supercomputer, capable of analysing 240 full human genomes in 50 hours, at the other.
        The Guardian
        6
        These were the days before computers and even the bulkiest of mechanical calculators.
        Wired
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        They cared no more for men and women than for material in a test-tube, no more for one another than for mechanical calculators.
        Last and First Men