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slide rule
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A slide rule is a mechanical analog computer. Slide Rule may also refer to: Slide Rule (album) , a 1992 album by Jerry Douglas Slide Rule (horse) , thoroughbred racehorse Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer , a partial autobiography of the British ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An analog calculator consisting of three interlocking strips marked with logarithmic scales, such that multiplication, division etc. can be performed by the equivalent of addition and subtraction.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All of them will make either a slide rule or an abacus as a way of presenting how number sets work. ▪ Greatly skilled at plotting the heavens and working things out on the old slide rule . ▪ The slide rule , the calculating machine, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slide rule \Slide" rule`\, n. a thin, flat calculating device consisting of a fixed outer piece and a movable middle piece. Both pieces are graduated in such a way (as, by a logarithmic scale) that multiplication, division, and other mathematical functions ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators [syn: slipstick ]
Usage examples of slide rule.
On a slide rule such a problem takes forty seconds, most of it to get your decimal point correct.
The gunner sat on the edge of the pit, handling the plans, and occasionally making calculations on a circular slide rule which hung from a lanyard around his neck.
In all the twenty-five years that I've fought men off, more or less successfully, I've been called a lot of namesbut a 'statistic'why I ought to take your slide rule and beat you to death with it.
I got out the old slide rule one night and ran the figures, and the way I read them our battlewagons are falling below the safety margin.
He too glanced at the dials, worked his slide rule, scrawled a quick calculation on a scrap of paper.
Dad says that anyone who can't use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate and should not be allowed to vote.