calculating machine

collocation in English

meaningsofcalculatingandmachine

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calculating
adjective
uk
/ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tɪŋ/us
/ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
often controlling situations for your own advantage in a way that is slightly unpleasant and causes people not to ...
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machine
noun[C]
uk
/məˈʃiːn/us
/məˈʃiːn/
a piece of equipment with several moving parts that uses power to do a particular type ...
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(Definition ofcalculatingandmachinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I was a little apprehensive at one time that he was about to criticise me for not being a sufficiently desiccatedcalculatingmachine.
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Indeed, the dessicatedcalculatingmachineseemed to have new life.
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Thecalculatingmachinealso seems to have gone a little wrong in connection with another aspect of the matter.
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One must be able to get the right figures into acalculatingmachineand to take them out.
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He will not sit like acalculatingmachinewhen he ought to be frying fish and chips.
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If it is checked, that is with the help of acalculatingmachineor other equipment of that kind.
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It may be a desk computer or some less elaboratecalculatingmachine, or something for work in the field.
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They are probably well beyond the ability of most small investors without acalculatingmachine.
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It is a deep and mysterious machine, very much more than acalculatingmachine.
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It was perhaps contrived by a desiccatedcalculatingmachine.
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It would need acalculatingmachineor an electronic computer to produce answers to all the various combinations of questions that could be asked with extreme detail.
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We are not here to function as a surrogatecalculatingmachine, to vote the way that our constituents would if they could all press a button.
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It is regarded as the first personal computer produced by a company (that is, a desktop electroniccalculatingmachineprogrammable by non-specialists for personal use).
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So, he invented acalculatingmachinedesigned to ease the monotony of clerical work.
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Some measuring instruments and automatons were also precursors to thecalculatingmachine.
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Whether they are converted to decimal degrees or radians depends upon the particularcalculatingmachineor program.
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The synthetic view understands the "calculus ratiocinator" as referring to acalculatingmachine.
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Around 1872, for the first time incalculatingmachinehistory, the total number of machines manufactured passed the 1,000 mark.
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It was the first successful key-driven adding andcalculatingmachine.
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