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Definition of Adding machine

1. Noun. A calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions.

Definition of Adding machine

1. Noun. A simple mechanical or electromechanical calculator that could only perform simple calculations such as addition or subtraction ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adding Machine

Literary usage of Adding machine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1915)
"pushes the same result as when the handle of an ordinary adding machine is pulled and prints and accumulates the data perforated upon each individual card. ..."

2. Transactions by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1912)
"In consequence of this grouping the typewriter keys are entirely separate from the adding machine keys, the operation keys of the adding machine are in a ..."

3. Origin of Modern Calculating Machines: A Chronicle of the Evolution of the by J. A. V. Turck (1921)
"Many of these other devices have now passed into adding-machine history. ... 18/08) Burroughs adding machine Company 67 Amsterdam Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, ..."

4. Trust Dissolution by Merle Raymond Thompson (1919)
"THE BURROUGHS adding machine COMPANY The Burroughs adding machine Company practiced many of the methods of unfair competition followed by the National Cash ..."

5. Modern Accounting, Its Principles and Some of Its Problems by Henry Rand Hatfield (1909)
"While the speed of adding figures already listed in a column may not be much greater when performed by an operator on an adding machine than when done by a ..."

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