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Significados de slide rule en inglés

ruso
счётная линейка
portugués
régua de cálculo
español
regla de calculo circular
catalán
regla de càlcul
Wikidata

Mechanical analog computer.

regla de calculo circular
Sinónimos
Examples for "slipstick"
Examples for "slipstick"
1
I learned how to work the sextant, the compass, the slipstick, the abacus.
The Name of the Wind
2
I made Re'lar before they threw me out, you little slipstick.
The Wise Man’s Fear
3
I called him a pompous slipstick who had missed his true calling as a counting-house scribe.
The Wise Man’s Fear
4
I keep forgetting that we're dealing with a planet instead of electrons. He applied the slipstick again.
Cities in Flight
5
Mine will be a cuddly little brunette that thinks a slipstick is some kind of lipstick and that an isotope's something good to eat.
Masters of Space
1
'That's a sliding ruler, Mother,' Simnel said, grinning at Moist.
Raising Steam
2
You saw those boys at that there compound in the smoke with their sliding rulers, although you couldn't quite work out what them was for.'
Raising Steam
Uso de slide rule en inglés
1
He readjusted the slide rule and slid the hairline over a bit.
Islands of Space
2
The actual slide rule was invented by one Oughtred in the same year.
The Irish Times
3
I was so shocked that I almost snapped my slide rule.
The Guardian
4
Dudley took from the desk another ledger, a slide rule, and a scratchpad.
The wrong venus
5
In 1622, Willliam Oughtred invented the slide rule for calculations.
Our Legal Heritage, King AEthelbert, 596 to King George III, 177...
6
He invented Gunter's scale, a predecessor of the slide rule.
Wired
7
Hazleton had left his slide rule upon the table.
Cities in Flight
8
He always carries a slide rule in his pocket.
The new yorker
9
There is no need to navigate by compass and slide rule to the exact geometric middle.
The Irish Times
10
Seminar aims to get the slide rule set to think like creative artists, writes Gabrielle Monaghan.
The Irish Times
11
He used a T-square and a slide rule.
Nightfall
12
Rip got his instruments and pulled out a special slide rule designed for use in space.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
13
Then he sat down, produced an elaborate pocket slide rule, and became oblivious to the world.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
14
I walked to Greenwich, studying the slide rule for measuring of timber, which is very fine.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 21: March/April 1662-63
15
Books, clothes, slide rule-I had never been a pack rat-and that minor junk was gone anyhow.
The Door Into Summer
16
Using a decimal ruler and circular slide rule he created a lengthy table in musical sign language.
Begin again: a biography of john cage