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number-cruncher

number-cruncher is the alternative form of cruncher.

Meaning of cruncher

Noun

cruncher (plural crunchers)

  1. A person or thing that crunches.
    • Even in this hypothetical case, the misapprehension would have to be temporary because something — a noise from the next room, the need to turn pages, dust floating in the projection beam, a noisy cruncher of popcorn — would surely […]1992, Michael Dunne, Metapop, page 190

Forms of number-cruncher

pluralnumber-crunchers

Questions about number-cruncher

What is number-cruncher the alternative form of?
Number-cruncher is the alternative form of cruncher.

Words near number-cruncher in the dictionary

  1. number three
  2. number threes
  3. number two
  4. number twos
  5. number'd
  6. number-cruncher
  7. number-crunchers
  8. number-crunching
  9. number-theoretic
  10. number-theoretic function
  11. number-theoretic functions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: number-cruncher (page history and authors); cruncher (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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