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analytical engines

analytical engines is the plural of analytical engine.

Meaning of analytical engine

Noun

analytical engine (plural analytical engines)

  1. (historical) A mechanical general-purpose computer, designed by Charles Babbage but never built.
    • "It is an analytical engine, or, to use the more common term, a calculating machine, as you say," assented the inventor.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

Questions about analytical engines

What is analytical engines the plural of?
Analytical engines is the plural of analytical engine.

Words near analytical engines in the dictionary

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  2. analytical behaviourism
  3. analytical chemistry
  4. analytical editing
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  10. analytical psychology
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