calculator

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small electronic machine used for doing sums.

   I used a calculator to add up the bill.

Common collocations

• pocket calculator Noun + noun

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.

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