spreadsheet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.

   The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.

2. 2
   noun

   A document created with such an application.

   A little later in this chapter, we'll run through some of the most common methods journalists use to analyze the material they gather and store in spreadsheets.

3. 3
   verb

   To model or compute by means of a spreadsheet.

   If you'd spreadsheeted the cascade charts and sorted it by each name's sphere of influence, then the people Carrie Johnstone sent the police to get constituted a big chunk of the middle third—people who “commanded” maybe four of five others—and maybe 10 percent of the top influencers.

4. 4
   noun

   a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen

5. 5
   noun

   A sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.

Etymology

From spread + sheet.