Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A key-actuated machine for performing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It has nine keys and one lever for each column of figures; the keys actuate the levers, and the level's figure-wheels which indicate results.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A calculating machine; an arithmometer.
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- noun A
mechanical orelectromechanical calculator ; anadding machine without acrank , driven instead bykeypress .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For the whole of the rest of the week he had sat in the sitting-room of his Southsea flat plodding through endless computations with slide rule, graphs, and the little black comptometer.
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Without a comptometer to hand, it was difficult to say which of the two generals was wearing the more decorations.
Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967
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These have been introduced by Stettner (1882), Max Mayer (1887), and in the comptometer by Dorr Z.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Bookkeeping work, especially in the positions held by girls, is frequently combined with comptometer or adding machine work, with typing, billing, filing, or statistical work; but rarely, except in the small office, are bookkeeping and stenography -- the Siamese Twins of traditional and commercial training -- found linked together.
Wage Earning and Education Rufus Rolla Lutz
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Nickleby an impostor whose motives were not to be computed by a self-respecting comptometer.
Every Man for Himself Hopkins Moorhouse
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Only he compromised by making the girl a comptometer operator instead of a stenographer, and a redhead instead of a blonde.
Murder Can Be Fun Brown, Fredric, 1906-1972 1948
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"Young lady, where's your comptometer?" he demanded, after he had made a quick survey of the office.
When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900
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During World War II she worked for General Motors as a comptometer operator and she was a volunteer for the American Red Cross where she earned her Nurse's Aide Cap. Annie also worked as a civilian for the United States Navy when General Motors became Eastern Aircraft; they make the famous Grumman Fighter.
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During World War II she worked for General Motors as a comptometer operator and she was a volunteer for the American Red Cross where she earned her Nurse's Aide Cap. Annie also worked as a civilian for the United States Navy when General Motors became Eastern Aircraft; they make the famous Grumman Fighter.
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I had heard they were going to hire someone over the summer but you had to be able to operate a comptometer.
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reesetee commented on the word comptometer
Invented by Dorr Eugene Felt in 1884. More here.
January 27, 2008
skipvia commented on the word comptometer
Fascinating page, reesetee. Seriously ugly, but fascinating.
January 27, 2008
reesetee commented on the word comptometer
Hideously ugly; I agree. And speaking of ugly--don't you think the earlier versions are much more snazzy than that last metal hulk?
January 28, 2008
qms commented on the word comptometer
The lady has ways that seem funky.
Her tech she prefers to lean clunky.
Expenses she'll monitor
On a vintage comptometer
Because of its aura steampunky.
October 29, 2015