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English
Etymology
Noun
tabulator (plural tabulators)
- A person who counts or tabulates things.
- The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
- (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.
- (computing, historical) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.
Translations
mechanism on a typewriter
computing: early data processing machine
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French tabulateur.
Noun
tabulator n (plural tabulatoare)
Declension
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