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computresses

computresses is the plural of computress.

Meaning of computress

Noun

computress (plural computresses)

  1. (historical, uncommon) A female computer (a person employed to perform computations; one who computes).
    • Picture a girl, we usually call her a computress, using a desk calculator. Suppose we had given her a sheet of paper containing several columns of numbers and suppose further we had given her a set of written instructions directing her to sum each column of numbers and then to divide each sum by...1962, The Volta Review, →ISSN, page 395

Questions about computresses

What is computresses the plural of?
Computresses is the plural of computress.

Words near computresses in the dictionary

  1. computistically
  2. computists
  3. computor
  4. computors
  5. computress
  6. computresses
  7. computronium
  8. computus
  9. compy
  10. compère
  11. compèred

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