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tabulators

tabulators is the plural of tabulator.

Meaning of tabulator

Noun

tabulator (plural tabulators)

  1. A person who counts or tabulates things.
  2. The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
  3. A tab character.
    • You can put a tabulator in all those places where a space is allowed. A tabulator character corresponds to, for example, 4 spaces in the program editor.2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C#, page 110
  4. (historical) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.

Questions about tabulators

What is tabulators the plural of?
Tabulators is the plural of tabulator.

Words near tabulators in the dictionary

  1. tabulating machines
  2. tabulation
  3. tabulations
  4. tabulatophobia
  5. tabulator
  6. tabulators
  7. tabulatory
  8. tabulature
  9. tabulatures
  10. tabuli
  11. tabuliform

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