hand calculator

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   a calculator small enough to hold in the hand or carry in a pocket

   Synonymspocket calculator

   Broadercalculator

Questions about hand calculator

What does hand calculator mean?

hand calculator means "a calculator small enough to hold in the hand or carry in a pocket".

What is another word for hand calculator?

Close synonyms include pocket calculator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hand calculator a common word?

hand calculator is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.