Computator

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who performs computations. archaic

    "But this is an advantage not to be had by the biographer in this planet;—in the planet Mercury (belike) it may be so, if not better still for him;——for there the intense heat of the country, which is proved by computators, from its vicinity to the sun, to be more than equal to that of red-hot iron, […]"

  2. 2
    A mechanical device that performs computation. archaic
  3. 3
    Synonym of computer (“electronic device”). humorous

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"But this is an advantage not to be had by the biographer in this planet;—in the planet Mercury (belike) it may be so, if not better still for him;——for there the intense heat of the country, which is proved by computators, from its vicinity to the sun, to be more than equal to that of red-hot iron, […]"

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