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pocket calculator

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Technology, Daily life
ˌpocket ˈcalculator noun [countable]  TDa small piece of electronic equipment that you use to do calculations 袖珍计算器
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pocket calculatorMultiply the length by 2.7 using a pocket calculator and that gives the number of needles to use for seaming.A pocket calculator will do most of the work.Out comes my pocket calculator to work out if I have an exact number of repeats.Then I pulled out my pocket calculator.It occupied an entire building and was similar in capacity to the programmable pocket calculator that one now buys at the stationers.Sir Clive, 51, also invented the pocket calculator, home computer and the digital watch.The appeal has been shamelessly to the pocket calculator, not the heart; to the purse, not to pride.
ˌpocket ˈcalculator nounChineseSyllable
Corpus a small electronic piece equipment of that


pocket calculator
ˌpocket ˈcalculator noun [countable]
a small piece of electronic equipment that you use to do calculations