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ready-reckoner

ready-reckoner is the alternative form of ready reckoner.

Meaning of ready reckoner

Noun

ready reckoner (plural ready reckoners)

  1. (historical) A printed book or table containing precalculated values, often multiples of given amounts.
    • Nor did he trouble his borrowers with abstract calculations of figures, or references to ready-reckoners; his simple rule of interest being all comprised in the one golden sentence, ‘two-pence for every half-penny,’ which greatly simplified the accounts[…]1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC
  2. A computer program which calculates values; an online calculator.

Forms of ready-reckoner

pluralready-reckoners

Questions about ready-reckoner

What is ready-reckoner the alternative form of?
Ready-reckoner is the alternative form of ready reckoner.

Words near ready-reckoner in the dictionary

  1. ready-mades
  2. ready-meal
  3. ready-meals
  4. ready-mix
  5. ready-mixed
  6. ready-reckoner
  7. ready-reckoners
  8. ready-to-drink
  9. ready-to-drinks
  10. ready-to-wear
  11. readyhanded

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