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tabulator

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See also: tabulátor and tabülatör

English

Etymology

From tabulate + -or.

Noun

tabulator (plural tabulators)

  1. A person who counts or tabulates things.
  2. The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
  3. (computing) A tab character.
    • 2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C#, page 110:
      You can put a tabulator in all those places where a space is allowed. A tabulator character corresponds to, for example, 4 spaces in the program editor.
  4. (computing, historical) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tabulateur.

Noun

tabulator n (plural tabulatoare)

  1. tabulator

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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