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English

Etymology

In the sense of a person, from Middle English calkelatour (“mathematician, astrologer”), borrowed from Latin calcul?tor, equivalent to calculate +? -or. The other meanings arose in Modern English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæl.kj?.le?.t?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kæl.kj?.le?.t??/, [?k?æ?.kj??le??.??]

Noun

calculator (plural calculators)

1. A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations.
2. (dated) A person who performs mathematical calculation
3. A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
4. (obsolete) A set of mathematical tables.

Synonyms

• (electronic device): electronic calculator, pocket calculator
• (mechanical device): adding machine
• (person who performs mathematical calculations): computer (dated)
• (person who schemes): plotter, schemer
• (mathematical tables): ready reckoner, tables

Derived terms

• electronic calculator
• pocket calculator

Related terms

• calculate

Translations

See also

• ready reckoner
• slide rule
• tables
• calculator on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Calculator”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, pages 27–28, column 3.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cal?cu?la?tor

Etymology

From English calculator.

Noun

calculator

1. calculator (device)

   Synonyms: calcu, kalkulador

Latin

Etymology

From calcul? (“I calculate”) +? -tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kal.ku?la?.tor/, [kä??k????ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kal.ku?la.tor/, [k?lku?l??t??r]

Noun

calcul?tor m (genitive calcul?t?ris, feminine calcul?tr?x); third declension

1. calculator, bookkeeper, accountant
2. computer, one versed in/teacher of arithmetic

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• calcul?tr?x

Verb

calcul?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of calcul?
   1. "thou shalt be calculated, thou shalt be computed"
   2. (figuratively) "thou shalt be considered as, thou shalt be esteemed"
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of calcul?
   1. "it shall be calculated, it shall be computed"
   2. (figuratively) "she shall be considered as, she shall be esteemed"

References

• calculator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calculator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• calculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• calculator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calculator in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French calculateur; compare also English and Latin calculator.

Noun

calculator n (plural calculatoare)

1. calculator (device)
2. computer

   Synonyms: computer, ordinator

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• mowse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mous, from Old English m?s, from Proto-West Germanic *m?s, from Proto-Germanic *m?s, from Proto-Indo-European *muh?s.

The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control".

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ma?s/
• (US) enPR: mous, IPA^(key): /ma?s/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /m??s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ma?s/, /ma?z/
• (US) enPR: mous, mouz, IPA^(key): /ma?s/, /ma?z/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /m??s/, /ma?z/
• Rhymes: -a?s, -a?z

Noun

mouse (plural mice)

1. Any small rodent of the genus Mus.

   • At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

2. (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
3. A quiet or shy person.
5. (computing) (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
6. (boxing) A facial hematoma or black eye.
7. (nautical) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.
8. (obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.
9. A match used in firing guns or blasting.
10. (set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
11. (historical) A small cushion for a woman's hair.

Hypernyms

• (small rodent): rodent

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• (small rodent): rat
• (input device): joystick, trackpad, trackball, pointing stick

Derived terms

Related terms

• muss

Descendants

Translations

Verb

mouse (third-person singular simple present mouses, present participle mousing, simple past and past participle moused)

1. (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
2. (intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. [from 12th c.]
3. (transitive, nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.

   Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.

4. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
   • 1988, MacUser, Volume 4

     I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
5. (obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• muscle
• mussel

Further reading

• mouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mouse (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Computer mouse on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Mice on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Mus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• meous, moues

Chinese

Etymology

From English mouse.

Pronunciation

Noun

mouse

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) mouse (Classifier: ??? c; ??? c)

Synonyms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?maws/

Noun

mouse m (invariable)

1. (computing, computer hardware) mouse (for a PC)

Derived terms

• tappetino per mouse

Anagrams

• esumo, esumò, museo

Middle English

Noun

mouse

1. Alternative form of mous

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?maw.zi/, /?mawz/

Noun

mouse m (plural mouses)

1. (Brazil, computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)

   Synonym: (Portugal) rato

2. (Brazil, loosely) pointer; cursor (moving icon that indicates the position of the mouse)

   Synonyms: ponteiro, cursor

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mouse.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• maus

Etymology

Borrowed from English mouse.

Noun

mouse n (plural mouse-uri)

1. (computing) mouse (for a PC)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English mouse. Doublet of mur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?maus/, [?mau?s]

Noun

mouse m (plural mouses)

1. (computing, chiefly Latin America) mouse (input device)

   Synonym: ratón