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GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.

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  1. n. a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations

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  1. machine

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  1. totalizer
  2. counter
  1. subtracter
  2. adder
  1. totaliser
  2. quipu
  1. hand calculator
  2. napier's rods
  1. pocket calculator
  2. Napier's bones
  1. tabulator
  2. abacus
  1. adding machine

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  1. difference-engine
  1. adding-machine
  1. comptometer
  1. multiplying-machine
  1. arithmometer
  1. calculating
  1. calculator
  1. autarith
  1. computing-scale

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