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What is "slide-rule"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slide-rule

also slide rule, mathematical calculating tool, 1838, from slide (v.) + rule (n.). So called for its method of operation. Earlier sliding-rule (1660s).

Usage examples of "slide-rule".

Down in the control room Quinton had completed his final checks, readjusting the trimming tanks against the findings on his slide-rule.

It was as if Porro, his pet savjer, were to take up in his paws a slide-rule.

In Inyo County (California) a geometrical figure in a cave drawing is recognisable—without overstraining the imagination—as a normal slide-rule in a double frame.