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analytical engine en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (historical) 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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ja 分析機関 (mechanical general-purpose computer) · pt máquina analítica (mechanical general-purpose computer) · el αναλυτική μηχανή (mechanical general-purpose computer) · fr machine analytique (mechanical general-purpose computer) · es máquina analítica (mechanical general-purpose computer) · it macchina analitica (mechanical general-purpose computer) · cmn 分析機 /分析机 (mechanical general-purpose computer)