adding machine
添加机,加注机,加法机,加法器
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- : a machine capable of adding numbers and sometimes capable of performing the other arithmetic functions of subtraction, multiplication, and division: such machines are now obsolescent, having been replaced in most applications by electronic calculators.
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He had an adding machine by the bed where he was constantly working and in the middle of all of that, he would work on music.
When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.
Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.
The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.
They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.
The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine.
The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.
The machine penetrated everywhere, thrusting aside with its gigantic arm the feeble efforts of handicraft.
"I have a letter somewhere," looking in the machine drawer and finding the letter in the bottom of the workbasket.