spreadsheet
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spreadsheets
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Accounting. a worksheet that is arranged in the manner of a mathematical matrix and contains a multicolumn analysis of related entries for easy reference on a single sheet.
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Digital Technology.
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a type of software that offers the user a visual display of a simulated multicolumn worksheet and the means of using it especially for financial plans and budgets.
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a single document created with this software.
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Origin of spreadsheet
Vocabulary lists containing spreadsheet
Computer Science and Technology - Middle School
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In the case of Great Britain rower Heidi Long, it takes a spreadsheet.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
But you can’t really get anywhere without looking at real numbers, and that means sitting down with a budgeting system, whether it’s your own spreadsheet or some software.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Last summer, a viral Tiktoker crooned, “I’m looking for a man in finance, trust fund, six-five, blue eyes,” turning spreadsheet warriors into the season’s most eligible bachelors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Airtable began with a product that was a cross between an online spreadsheet and a database.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
But I could almost hear him mentally running through his spreadsheet.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
But what looks good on spreadsheets ignores daunting constraints.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
I run a company that tracks layoffs caused by artificial intelligence, and every month I look at spreadsheets that show my generation losing entry-level jobs faster than anyone anticipated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The agencies’ stipulations are part of the record Lin will consider then; they all include spreadsheets listing the terminated grants and the rationales for their terminations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Michele described carrying a binder with hundreds of pages of medical records and creating spreadsheets to track symptoms as they trekked from hospital to hospital, doctor to doctor, to get treatment for Aidan.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
Once we had that basic interoperable platform, then the killer applications— spreadsheets and word processing—drove its diffusion far and wide.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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