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"etymology_text": "Trade name of Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company, apparently a blend of compute and meter (“measure”).",
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"ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 56",
"text": "Another was able to add up correctly the most complicated lists of figures in less time than a comptometer.",
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"A mechanical or electromechanical calculator; an adding machine without a crank, driven instead by keypress."
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