calculator

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calculators

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.
Đồng nghĩa: electronic calculator
2.
(historical)A person who performs mathematical calculation.
During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.
Đồng nghĩa: computer, reckoner
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.
Đồng nghĩa: schemer, plotter, manipulator
4.
(obsolete)A set of mathematical tables.
Đồng nghĩa: ready reckoner

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Nguồn gốc từ

In the sense of a person, from Middle English calkelatour (a mathematician, an astrologer), borrowed from Latin calculātor, equivalent to calculate + -or. The other meanings arose in Modern English.