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单词 pocket calculator
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pocket calculator
c. An electronic device for performing calculations, now esp. one that is preprogrammed; spec. (more fully pocket calculator) a flat hand-held calculator with a keyboard and visual display. Formerly used where computer is now usual.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > calculator
calculating machine1832
Comptometer1894
subtractor1914
calculator1946
programmable1964
1946 Sci. Amer. June 248/3 (heading) Electronic calculator uses 18,000 tubes to solve complex problems.
1946 Electr. Engin. (U.S.) 65 387 (caption) Front view of calculator showing sequence control mechanism.., which tells machine what to do and when to do it.
1958 Listener 11 Dec. 983/1 Automatic digital calculators, sometimes called ‘electronic brains’, are just over a decade old.
1965 Product Engin. 10 May 48 (caption) Electronic desktop calculator.
1970 Computer Design June 34/1 (heading) LSI, electronic printout bases of ‘pocket’ electronic calculator.
1973 Physics Bull. Oct. 626/1 Finally, going lower than micro, we might mention the HP-45, Hewlett-Packard's new pocket ‘scientific’ calculator.
1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 23 Feb. 4/2 The digital watch is a natural followup to the electronic calculator and many watch distributors..sell the calculators as well.
1978 John Moores Catal. Spring–Summer 813 You can, of course, work out percentages on any calculator, but it is easier and quicker if you have a separate % key.
1978 Daily Tel. 19 Sept. 8/6 Semiconductors..are used in pocket calculators, electronic watches, mini-computers, and many other modern devices.
1983 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Nov. 105/3 Casio is gearing up to make about 1 million thin credit-card calculators a month.
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pocket calculator
a. Adapted or intended to be carried in the pocket, as pocket calculator, pocket flask, pocket watch, etc.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun]
clock1559
pocket watch?1576
watch1590
munter1594
tattler1688
loge1699
yack1789
thimble1819
ticker1821
toy1826
super1857
kettle1889
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > bag or pouch worn on person > [adjective] > adapted or intended to be carried in
pocket?1576
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > small enough to fit in specific container
pocket?1576
cabinet1696
pocketable1699
pocket-size1820
vest-pocket1823
cabinet-sized1883
suitcase1910
?1576 A. Hall Let. touchyng Priuate Quarell sig. ciij Mallerie hauing aboute him a pocket dag charged, deliuered the same closely to one Warde a Sergeant.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Also a priuie, close, short pocket dag or pistole.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aa4v/2 Out with your bodkin Your pocket dagger, your steletto.
1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. I2 The multiplicity of pocket-watches.
1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes iv. 153 A pocket-dyal with a magnet needle.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4422/8 Lost.., a large blue Turkey-Leather Pocket-Case.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 7 I discovered by my Pocket Glass several Islands to the South-East.
1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 138 It is not very easy to believe, that words have the property of shutting up all at once, like pocket telescopes.
1831 J. W. Woollgar (title) Description and use of the pocket calculator, a modification of the slide rule.
1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 14 Apr. 86/2 I scarcely recollect a single traveller without his pocket-comb.
1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 45 We..ran by a pocket compass in the hands of Captain Fish.
1885 Sam Scaramouch 12 Dec. 247/2 If you must have a drink, gentlemen, carry your pocket flasks.
1927 S. Ertz Now East, now West xi. 173 Again that keen glance, over her pocket mirror.
1957 Pract. Wireless 33 534/2 Messrs. Cossar announce a neat printed circuit transistor pocket radio.
1978 Daily Tel. 19 Sept. 8/6 Semiconductors..are used in pocket calculators, electronic watches, mini-computers, and many other modern devices.
2001 Art Room Catal. Autumn 62/3 Each glossy cardboard gift bag contains a coordinated set of a pocket memo pad, a miniature badge mirror and four cards with envelopes.
extracted from pocketn.adj.
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