adding machine

• Machine mécanique ou électronique ancienne servant à effectuer des opérations arithmétiques simples, aujourd'hui largement remplacée par les calculatrices numériques et les ordinateurs.

A mechanical or early electronic device used for performing simple arithmetic operations, now largely replaced by digital calculators and computers.

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   A mechanical or early electronic device used to perform simple arithmetic operations, primarily addition and subtraction.

   machine à additionner

   • The accountant used an adding machine to tally the day's receipts.
   • Before computers, offices relied on adding machines for calculations.
   • The museum displayed a vintage adding machine from the 1950s.