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comptometers

comptometers is the plural of comptometer.

Meaning of comptometer

Noun

comptometer (plural comptometers)

  1. A mechanical or electromechanical calculator; an adding machine without a crank, driven instead by keypress.
    • Another was able to add up correctly the most complicated lists of figures in less time than a comptometer.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 56

Questions about comptometers

What is comptometers the plural of?
Comptometers is the plural of comptometer.

Words near comptometers in the dictionary

  1. compting-houses
  2. comptly
  3. comptograph
  4. comptographs
  5. comptometer
  6. comptometers
  7. comptometrist
  8. comptometrists
  9. Compton
  10. Compton and Shawford
  11. Compton Bassett

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