| 单词 | analytical engine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanalytical engine analytical engine n. chiefly historical a machine for performing (numerical) analysis; spec. (the name of) a mechanical calculating machine designed by Charles Babbage. ΚΠ 1835 Hints Introd. Improved Course of Study Univ. Cambr. 16 A person may mould himself into the form of an analytical engine, but never make himself a mathematician. 1843 tr. L. F. Menabrea in R. Taylor Sci. Mem. III. 666 (title) Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. 1930 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 45 154 He thinks of theory not as an analytical engine, but..as a store of rational hypotheses. 1948 Proc. Symp. Large-scale Digital Calculating Machinery 1947 93 The early designs of Babbage for an Analytical Engine involved a ‘mill’, in which the formulas were stored. 1993 G. Hayward in F. H. Hinsley & A. Stripp Codebreakers xxi. 175 Colossus was too valuable a machine as an analytical engine to be allowed to devote time to this. < as lemmas |
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