What is another word for calculators?

Pronunciation: [kˈalkjʊlˌe͡ɪtəz] (IPA)

Calculators are electronic devices used for performing mathematical operations. Synonyms for calculators include adding machines, arithmometers, comptometers, electronic calculators, slide rules and abacuses. Adding machines and arithmometers are mechanical calculators that were popular in the early 20th century. Comptometers are also mechanical calculators that were used extensively in businesses during the early years of the 20th century. Electronic calculators replace the mechanical counterparts with silicon chips and were introduced in the 1960s. Slide rules and abacuses were used before the existence of calculators and are still used in some regions. Regardless of the synonym used, calculators remain a useful tool in math education and business.

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Usage examples for Calculators

The best calculators compute that Ireland lost two hundred thousand of her inhabitants in that struggle.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
The calculators compute them out of their senses.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
The feverish fervour of his temperament was, it is true, occasionally shown in a remarkable energy of delivery, or a sudden and unexpected burst of the more impetuous powers of oratory; but these were so evidently natural and spontaneous, and so happily adapted to be impressive of the subject, rather than irrelevant from its bearings, that they never displeased even the oldest and coldest cynics and calculators of the House.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009

Famous quotes with Calculators

  • But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
    Edmund Burke
  • The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
    Jack Kilby
  • Nature hates calculators.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic.It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here.I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.
    Edward Abbey
  • Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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