calculator – English noun declension

English noun forms of calculator

Noun: calculator
Singularcalculator
Pluralcalculators

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [2020, Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future, page 145:]
  • 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. [1838, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter X, in Alice or The Mysteries […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 92:]
  • 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. [1858, John Cumming, Thy Word is Truth: an apology for Christianity, page 112:]

Etymology

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. See: Latin Nouns 'calculātor'.

Verbs referencing "calculator"

Ukrainian Nouns калькулятор, Polish Nouns kalkulator, Latvian Nouns kalkulators, Finnish Nouns kalkulaattori.