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hand calculator

n. a calculator small enough to hold in the hand or carry in a pocket [syn: pocket calculator]

Usage examples of "hand calculator".

Unzipping the jumpsuit, he pulled out the hand calculator which disguised the camera and spent the next fifteen seconds hastily photographing images of the twin aeroshells in the Constellation's cargo bay.

Uses less power than a hand calculator and weighs less-under two hundred grams.

Uses less power than a hand calculator and weighs less - under two hundred grams.

Uses less power than a hand calculator and weighs less -- under two hundred grams.

It was a camper's model, accurate to within a few hundred yards, looking much like a hand calculator.

If a solar-powered hand calculator quits on you, chances are you’.

Twenty years of cranking the bloody hand calculator, when even the people in Forward Planning had com­.

Twenty years of cranking the bloody hand calculator, when even the people in Forward Planning had computers.

A hundred and fourteen programmers protected Chase Manhattan Bank's information centers from entry by unauthorized persons, and a bright young kid armed with nothing but a hand calculator and an ordinary telephone broke into that inner sanctum as a joke and left a calling card: auditors wanting to check a balance, before each CREDIT and DEBIT command had to type PEEKABOO.

Half the table surface was taken up by more ledgers and legal pads, pens, pencils, a hand calculator, cans of Diet 7-Up, snack bags of assorted carbohydrates.

In his office he motioned her to sit down as he sauntered around his desk He stood there for a moment gazing at her, his fingers toying with a small hand calculator.

Nathaniel looked at the numbers on the borrowed hand calculator, wishing he'd understood them before, but the trideo shows and the little information about the beans had been the key .

Unless you threw out millennia of development work and started from scratch with a lump of sponge palladium and a hand calculator, there was no way to step clear of the ancient technology and produce a more efficient robot brain.