analytical engine

noun

analytical engine

noun

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A mechanical general-purpose computer, designed by Charles Babbage but never built.

"It is an analytical engine, or, to use the more common term, a calculating machine, as you say," assented the inventor.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

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