calculator
/ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)//kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/
calculator noun: a mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.
Noun
calculator (plural calculators)
- A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.
- electronic calculator; pocket calculator
- The calculator on a bookkeeper's desk in the 1950s was an adding machine with mechanical guts.
- Synonyms:
- electronic calculator
- A person who performs mathematical calculation.
- During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.
- First, many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory: they're all too subject to herd behavior, to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic.2020, Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future, page 145
- A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
- Near-synonyms: schemer, plotter; manipulator
- He revealed himself to be a cold-blooded calculator out to sabotage his colleagues.
- Synonyms:
- schemer, plotter, manipulator
- A set of mathematical tables.
- Synonyms:
- ready reckoner
calculator meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
calculator in Hindi
- electronic device that performs mathematical calculations
- परिकलक pariklak, कैलकुलेटर kailkuleṭar, परिकलित्र pariklitra
- dated: a person who performs mathematical calculations
- परिकलक pariklak
calculator in Tamil
- electronic device that performs mathematical calculations
- கணிப்பான் kaṇippāṉ
calculator in Marathi
- electronic device that performs mathematical calculations
- गणनयंत्र gaṇanyantra, कॅल्क्युलेटर kĕlkyuleṭar
calculator in Urdu
- electronic device that performs mathematical calculations
- کَیلْکُولیٹَر kailkūleṭar, حِسابْگَر hisābgar
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- calculator in Bengali
- ক্যালকুলেটর kêlkuleṭor
- calculator in Telugu
- గణికుడు gaṇikuḍu
- calculator in Malayalam
- കാൽക്കുലേറ്റർ kālkkulēṟṟaṟ
- calculator in Kannada
- ಲೆಕ್ಕರಣೆ lekkaraṇe
- calculator in Gujarati
- કેલ્ક્યુલેટર kelkyuleṭar
- calculator in Odia
- କାଲକୁଲେଟର kālakuleṭara
- calculator in Sanskrit
- गणकयन्त्रम् gaṇakayantram, गुणक guṇaka
- calculator in Assamese
- কেলকুলেটৰ kelkuletor
- calculator in Pashto
- شمېرماشين šmermāšin
- calculator in Tagalog
- pantaya, kalkulador
- calculator in Arabic
- حَاسِبَة ḥāsiba, آلَة حَاسِبَة ʔāla ḥāsiba, مِحْسَاب miḥsāb
- calculator in Malay
- mesin kira, kalkulator
- calculator in Indonesian
- kalkulator, mesin hitung, penghitung
- calculator in Thai
- เครื่องคิดเลข krʉ̂ʉang-kít-lêek
- calculator in Vietnamese
- máy tính cầm tay, máy tính cơ khí, máy tính tương tự, dụng cụ tính toán
- calculator in Myanmar
- ဂဏန်းတွက်စက် ga.nan:twakcak
Examples of calculator in a sentence
- I told him to hand me a calculator and he jokingly placed an adding machine at my side.
- Talk not thus, I implore you, Evelyn: do not imagine me the worldly calculator that my enemies deem me.1838, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter X, in Alice or The Mysteries […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 92:
- You have in the merchant the shrewd calculator of probable contingencies; we shall see that we have in the prophet the absolute proclaimer of necessary and inevitable facts.1858, John Cumming, Thy Word is Truth: an apology for Christianity, page 112:
Synonyms of calculator
Forms of calculator
| plural | calculators |
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Origin of calculator
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.
Words formed from calculator
Questions about calculator
- What does calculator mean?
- Calculator means a mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.
- What is calculator in Hindi?
- Calculator in Hindi is परिकलक (pariklak), कैलकुलेटर (kailkuleṭar), परिकलित्र (pariklitra). See Calculator meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use calculator in a sentence?
- I told him to hand me a calculator and he jokingly placed an adding machine at my side.
- What part of speech is calculator?
- Calculator is a noun.
- How do you pronounce calculator?
- Calculator is pronounced /ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of calculator?
- The plural of calculator is calculators.
Words near calculator in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: calculator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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