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Computer

One who computes.

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Actuary 76% connected

A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally.

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Adder 76% connected

One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.

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Client 76% connected

A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

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Guest 76% connected

A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.

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Host 76% connected

The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

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Node 76% connected

A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

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Predictor 76% connected

One who predicts; a foreteller.

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Server 76% connected

One who serves.

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Site 76% connected

The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.

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Statistician 76% connected

One versed in statistics; one who collects and classifies facts for statistics.

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Subtracter 76% connected

One who subtracts.

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Tablet 76% connected

A small table or flat surface.

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Expert 76% connected

Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice;…

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Machine 76% connected

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmi…

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Cypher 74% connected

See Cipher.

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Cypher 74% connected

See Cipher.

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Reckon 74% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Reckon 74% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Bus 70% connected

An omnibus.

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Chip 70% connected

To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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Floppy 70% connected

Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.

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Hardware 70% connected

Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

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Keyboard 70% connected

The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.

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Memory 70% connected

The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

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Monitor 70% connected

One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.

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Peripheral 70% connected

Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.

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Storage 70% connected

The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

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Store 70% connected

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

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Containing whole 1

Platform 70% connected

A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.

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Synonym 3

Calculator 92% connected

One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.

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Estimator 92% connected

One who estimates or values; a valuer.

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Reckoner 92% connected

One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.

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