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adding machine
noun
- a machine capable of adding numbers and sometimes capable of performing the other arithmetic functions of subtraction, multiplication, and division: such machines are now obsolescent, having been replaced in most applications by electronic calculators.
adding machine
noun
- a mechanical device, operated manually or electrically, for adding and often subtracting, multiplying, and dividing
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Word History and Origins
Origin of adding machine1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences
Lee was William S. Burroughs, Harvard graduate and heir to the Burroughs Adding Machine fortune.
From The Daily Beast
In 1874 he received a patent for a small hand adding machine.
From Project Gutenberg
No one will go shares in an adventure with Joe Kinney, a twenty-dollar-a-week clerk, the human adding machine, the hall-room boy.
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The new device, the adding machine, has greatly lessened office drudgery.
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Having installed an adding machine, our office work could be done in half the time.
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If they are to be converted to uses for which excavation is desirable, this is another item for the adding machine.
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