calculating machine

noun

1. calculator.

Word History and Origins

Origin of calculating machine¹

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

Because one can number these calculating machines, the computable numbers are necessarily countable.

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Put simply, not all the devices that people call quantum “computers” are actually computers—many are more like calculating machines that can perform only certain tasks.

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As a young man, Blaise invented a mechanical calculating machine, named the Pascaline, which is similar to some of the mechanical calculators that engineers used before the invention of the electronic calculator.

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One of the central researchers in the early years of Antikythera research was German philologist Albert Rehm, the first person to understand the mechanism as a calculating machine.

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Now, McConnell is not a man to speak without prior thought: unencumbered by scruples, he is a political calculating machine.

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