Calculator

//ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)//

"Calculator" in a Sentence (19 examples)

A businessman is working out some figures with a calculator.

The calculator on the table is mine.

Something is wrong with this calculator.

A math teacher says, "With a calculator, the child can reach the right answer, but have no idea at all how he got there."

Calculation is miles easier if you have a calculator.

The calculator is a wonderful invention.

The first electric calculator came into existence toward the end of the 19th century.

I've had my pocket calculator stolen.

"And besides," Dima made sure to add, taking out his calculator and dividing 0.99 by 3,000,000, before multiplying by 100. "You do realize that you would only lose 0.0033%, right?"

It is easy to add numbers using a calculator.

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electronic calculator;   pocket calculator

The calculator on a bookkeeper's desk in the 1950s was an adding machine with mechanical guts.

I told him to hand me a calculator and he jokingly placed an adding machine at my side.

During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.

First, many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory: they're all too subject to herd behavior, to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic.

Near-synonyms: schemer, plotter; manipulator

He revealed himself to be a cold-blooded calculator out to sabotage his colleagues.

Talk not thus, I implore you, Evelyn: do not imagine me the worldly calculator that my enemies deem me.

You have in the merchant the shrewd calculator of probable contingencies; we shall see that we have in the prophet the absolute proclaimer of necessary and inevitable facts.

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