calculator

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1. 1

   A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.

   electronic calculator; pocket calculator

   The calculator on a bookkeeper's desk in the 1950s was an adding machine with mechanical guts.

   I told him to hand me a calculator and he jokingly placed an adding machine at my side.

2. 2

   historiqueA person who performs mathematical calculation.

   During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.

   First, many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory: they're all too subject to herd behavior, to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic.

3. 3

   A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).

   Near-synonyms: schemer, plotter; manipulator

   He revealed himself to be a cold-blooded calculator out to sabotage his colleagues.

   Talk not thus, I implore you, Evelyn: do not imagine me the worldly calculator that my enemies deem me.

   You have in the merchant the shrewd calculator of probable contingencies; we shall see that we have in the prophet the absolute proclaimer of necessary and inevitable facts.

4. 4

   obsolèteA set of mathematical tables.

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