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n. 计算者, 计算器 [计] 计算器

发音

/ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)/
US /kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/
US /ˈkʰæɫ.kjəˌleɪ̯.ɾɚ/

词形变化

calculators 复数 calculators

别名

calcu calc

教材释义与例句

名词

计算器；计算者

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.

    计算器

    电子计算器

    电子计算机

    计算机

    计数机

    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.

  2. 2.

    A person who performs mathematical calculation.

    计算者

    历史

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

  3. 3.

    A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).

    计算者

    Near-synonyms: schemer, plotter; manipulator

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

  4. 4.

    A set of mathematical tables.

    计算表

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

computer estimator figurer reckoner

上位词 2

machine expert

下位词 10

counter abacus adder statistician subtracter actuary adding machine Napier's bones Napier's rods number cruncher

相关短语

scientific calculator [电] 科学用计算机 graphing calculator mental calculator human calculator graphics calculator electronic calculator pocket calculator [计] 便携式计算器, 袖珍计算器

词源

In the sense of a person, from Middle English calkelatour (“a mathematician, an astrologer”), borrowed from Latin calculātor, equivalent to calculate + -or. The other meanings arose in Modern English.

来源：wiktionary