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tabulator

tabulator

1 6.6
A device or program that counts and puts data into tables
  • noun
  • /təˈbjuːleɪtər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : tabulador
  • The accountant relied on the tabulator to arrange the financial data into columns for the annual report.

Examples

  • The vote records are driven to the county in OH, uploaded to a tabulator, and then transmitted across a network (Ohio actually uses public network transit) to the state's collection and presentation site.

    Blog text (30)

  • He said that the patches would allow those tabulators to interface with the state's main tabulator so that vote totals could be reported more quickly.

    Blog text (28)

  • Where are the forensic programmers to audit the tabulator code?

    Blog text (31)

  • An even more important one is the vulnerability of the networks that send data from individual machines to the tabulator computers that add up the votes from various precincts.

    Blog text (32)

  • Election Systems & Software (ES&S) installed the last minute software on county tabulators linked to the secretary of state's office.

    Blog text (6)

  • Wichman explained that the ballots were just slightly off center, enough for the 650 Central Ballot Tabulator machine to reject them.

    Blog text (9)

  • Election Day that said that SoS Husted of Ohio had put patches on the vote tabulators in half of the counties in Ohio.

    Blog text (28)

  • Weary and overtaxed tabulators, faced with grueling working conditions, often went home, delaying results even further.

    Academic text (1992)

  • At 9:32 PM on election night 2004, records show that the county tabulator destinations shifted from the SOS central collector in Columbus to a GOP-owned data center in Lexington, KY.

    Blog text (30)

  • The new software acts as a tabulator, efficiently organizing the survey data into clear tables.

Synonyms

counter
vstabulator
  • Specialized
75 3.4

A person or machine that keeps a total of items

focuses on processing and arranging data into tables rather than only counting totals
tabulating machine
vstabulator
  • Archaic
1 8.3

An early machine that counts and sorts information from cards with holes

is a modern device or program that organizes data into tables or columns

How Automated

database management system
  • Specialized
1 3.9
spreadsheet
  • Specialized
34 3.2
tabulator
  • Specialized
1 6.6
calculator
81 1.3
counter
  • Specialized
75 3.4

Surface Forms

tabulator singular
tabulators plural

Morphology

tabulator = tabulate (transparent) = tabulate + or

Regular agentive noun formed from the verb 'tabulate' by adding '-or'; the meaning 'an agent that tabulates' is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word tabulator comes from the Latin tabula meaning 'table' and the ending -ator meaning 'one who does something'. So a tabulator is literally something that makes or fills a 'table' of numbers, which is why it counts and arranges data into columns.