tabulating machine
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8.3
- noun
- Archaic
:
máquina tabuladora
- These characteristics are grouped like the organs of our cultural body, and they will be calculated and determined with the help of our tabulating machines.
Examples
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With the introduction of tabulating machines, the efficiency of data analysis in businesses greatly improved.
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Hollerith's idea was a simple punch card that held the data of Census respondents and could be read in seconds by his electrical tabulating machine.
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As far ahead as Brunner was in polling, you have to wonder if the Spanish tabulating machines were operational in Missouri.
Blog text (1) -
l also operate a tabulating machine translate Hawaiian and Japanese and l'm quite good with a scalp massage.
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Fergus County Clerk and Recorder Rana Wichman demonstrates how the ballot tabulating machine works.
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The successful application of Hollerith tabulating machines in the 1890 and 1900 United States censuses provided the technology IBM developed and implemented for the Third Reich.
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In the early 1900s, companies began using tabulating machines to speed up data processing for large organizations.
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The clerk used a tabulating machine to quickly count the votes after the election.
Synonyms
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6.6
A device or program that counts and puts data into tables
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5.9
A machine for doing math, often mechanical or early electronic
How Automated
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'tabulating' = organizing/summarizing into tables and 'machine' = a device, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it is a device that tabulates or summarizes data. This is a literal, non-idiomatic noun phrase following a common cross-linguistic pattern (a machine that X), so its meaning is transparently derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Tabulating machine comes from early devices: tabulating meant making tables of numbers and machine was a device that read punched cards to count and sort them. That's why the name means 'an early device that processes and summarizes data'.