The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calculating \Cal"cu*la`ting\, a.
Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.
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Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition.
Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.
WordNet
n. a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations [syn: calculator]
Usage examples of "calculating machine".
Aarn was already at work on the calculating machine, and with a great loose-leaf notebook filled with fine-lettered data.
For the next few hours, he became a calculating machine, a cerebral entity without distracting physical or emotional sensations.
The cost of executing the calculating machine was of course very great, and the progress of the work was necessarily slow.
He is not a mechanical monster, nor simply a calculating machine of the type that were developed during World War II, fifty years ago.
Their Thinker is merely a calculating machine on a grand scale, and a dilemma ruins it instantly.
In 1932, a broadcasting company in the US hired a 'calculating genius', the Pole Salo Finkelstein, to tally the returns for the presidential election of the year, because he was claimed to be faster than any then extant calculating machine.
With those and the calculating machine it would have been possible to direct accurate fire nearly to the southern shore of the Gut.
He set the play down in a little black book, and then tapped swiftly at the keys of a compact, silent little calculating machine.
The second clay vessel shows a man who is using the index fingers of both hands to operate a kind of calculating machine or switchboard.
In the same way, the human mind, being called upon to resolve problems of a magnitude and with enough variables to confound any mere calculating machine a thousand times an hour, is prey to incorrect data.
Actually, it was a complicated calculating machine which could throw on a screen a reproduction of the night sky as seen from any given point of the Galaxy.