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Definition of Pocket calculator
1. Noun. A calculator small enough to hold in the hand or carry in a pocket.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocket Calculator
Literary usage of Pocket calculator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Experimental Engineering. by W. C. Popplewell, William Wade Fitzherbert Pullen (1901)
"THE "MECHANICAL ENGINEER" pocket calculator. . _ __ . ... The figures " I cannot
speak too highly of the pocket calculator. Its great advantage over a are ..."
2. Experimental Engineering Vol. II: A Treatise on the Methods and Machines by William Charles Popplewell (1901)
"THE "MECHANICAL ENGINEER" pocket calculator. ... speak too highly of the Pocket
Calculator. Its great advantage over a slide rule. ..."
3. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1857)
"The whole design bore evidence of care and excellence, fairly supporting its
pretensions to novelty and utility as a pocket calculator, adapted to the use ..."
4. A Treatise on the Methods and Machines Used in the Mechanical Testing of by William Charles Popplewell (1901)
"The figures " I cannot speak too highly of the pocket calculator. Its great
advantage over a slide rule. In my opinion it is the most useful instrument an ..."
5. ... The Boy with the U. S. Inventors by Francis William Rolt-Wheeler (1920)
"As the people who had infringed on his pocket calculator patent were wealthy
manufacturers, the issue looked black for Bjorn. Of course, it is well known ..."
6. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1840)
"... by which a great many of the objects of my The special scales for the back of
the "pocket calculator," may be answered. stiele and the groove, ..."
7. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1840)
"I have caused Mr. Hooker to construct an 8-inch rule with one slide only, by
which a great many of the objects of my " pocket calculator," may be answered. ..."
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