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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A key-actuated machine which prints or lists successive numerical items on paper, adds the items, and, at the will of the operator, records their sum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A machine for adding numbers and making a printed record of the sum. An older term for an adding machine.

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