Crossword clues for tabulator
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1848, agent noun from tabulate.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who counts or tabulates things. 2 The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders. 3 (context computing English) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.
WordNet
n. a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens [syn: counter]
Wikipedia
Tabulator may refer to:
- Tabulating machine, a data-analysis machine that was a precursor to the computer
- Tab key, a standard keyboard key originally called the "tabulator key"
- Tabulator, a data browser and editor originally developed by Tim Berners-Lee
Usage examples of "tabulator".
Marconi wireless telegraph, and the Hollerith tabulator were revolutionary.
Then, chik, chik, chik, he was operating the antique tabulator again, thinking: Poor damn fool Peter Macdonald.
It was equipped with International Business Machine Corporation tabulators, which were partitioned off in a separate section because of the racket they made.
Radio weather stations were set up at distant points and at the base the weather tabulators clicked off the data that the stations sent back.
Radio weather stations were set up at distant points, and at the base the weather tabulators clicked off on tape the data that the stations sent back.