differential analyzer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of differential analyzer
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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After the war, Johnny threw himself into developing new computers that used a fraction of the time required by the punch card machines or the differential analyzer.
From Scientific American
Trained as an electrical engineer, in the 1920s he had invented a machine known as a differential analyzer: an analog computer whose digital offspring would dominate the information age.
From Literature
Dr. Brinton found a crowd in the indoor test lab, chuckling over the line being drawn by a differential analyzer.
From Project Gutenberg
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