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slide rule
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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n. analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators [syn: slipstick ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Slide Rule (1940 - ) was a Thoroughbred race horse who was owned by William E. Boeing of Boeing . He sired by Metropolitan and Suburban Handicap winner, Snark and was out of the mare King's Idyll, a daughter of the outstanding Champion sire and broodmare ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slide \Slide\, n. [AS. sl[=i]de.] The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice. Smooth, even passage or progress. A better slide into their business. --Bacon. That on which anything moves by sliding. Specifically: An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide ...
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, ...
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.
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.