calculator
pronunciation
How to pronounce calculator in British English:
UK [ˈkælkjuleɪtə(r)]
How to pronounce calculator in American English:
US [ˈkælkjuleɪtər]
-
- Noun:
- a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations
- an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
Word Origin
- calculator (n.)
- late 14c., "mathematician, one who calculates," from Latin calculator, from calculatus, past participle of calculare "to reckon, compute," from calculus (see calculus). Of mechanical adding machine contraptions, from 1784. Of electronic ones, from 1946. Electronic calculator uses 18,000 tubes to solve complex problems ["Scientific American" headline, June 1946]
Example
- 1. This is because your calculator rounds off the actual value .
- 2. We have to use a calculator .
- 3. She has three filipina assistants and she haggles with customers via a calculator .
- 4. So professor galloway and other researchers have developed a nitrogen footprint calculator .
- 5. Google calculator , for instance , is a hidden feature of google search .