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spreadsheety en · ADJ

Etymology

From spreadsheet + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of spreadsheets or spreadsheet software.
   • Although it goes dramatically beyond applications such as Microsoft Excel, Numbers still has a more “spreadsheety” feel. If spreadsheets give you a headache, try Numbers anyway, because it may cure that headache forever. 2012, Jesse Feiler, iWork For Dummies, page 252:
   • These are easy to work out: you just have to total the rows and columns. (Very spreadsheety, this.) However, you may want to perform slightly more complex analyses such as how many items you sold in each week. 1999, Mark Whitehorn, Mary Whitehorn, Business Intelligence: The IBM Solution: Datawarehousing and OLAP:

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