adding machine

Questions about adding machine

What is another word for adding machine?

It depends which adding machine you mean. In the sense “a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions”, the synonyms are totalizer, totaliser. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of adding machine?

WordNet records no antonym for adding machine. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for adding machine come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of adding machine

• Full entry for adding machineAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for adding machineWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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