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noun

a machine capable of adding numbers and sometimes capable of performing the other arithmetic functions of subtraction, multiplication, and division: such machines are now obsolescent, having been replaced in most applications by electronic calculators.

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Origin of adding machine

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Words nearby adding machine

addiction, addictive, Addie, add-in, adding, adding machine, Addington, add insult to injury, addio, Addis Ababa, Addis count

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How to use adding machine in a sentence

He had an adding machine by the bed where he was constantly working and in the middle of all of that, he would work on music.
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When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
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Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.
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Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.
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The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.
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They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.
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The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
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A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine.
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The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.
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The machine penetrated everywhere, thrusting aside with its gigantic arm the feeble efforts of handicraft.
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"I have a letter somewhere," looking in the machine drawer and finding the letter in the bottom of the workbasket.
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British Dictionary definitions for adding machine

adding machine

noun

a mechanical device, operated manually or electrically, for adding and often subtracting, multiplying, and dividing

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adding machine

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