calculista — meaning in English
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English meaning
- calculating adj Coldly scheming and focused on personal advantage.
- calculator noun A device, often electronic, used to perform mathematical calculations.
- computer noun An electronic device that processes data, runs programs, and carries out calculations — from a desktop or laptop to the machine running behind a phone app.
Senses
calculista is used for these senses in English:
- calculating (especially of a person) Serving one's own interests in an unemotional, analytical manner.
- calculator (historical) A person who performs mathematical calculation.
- calculator A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
- computer (now, rare, chiefly, historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. [from 17th c.]
calculator — full definition
- noun A device, often electronic, used to perform mathematical calculations.
- noun A person who calculates, especially one skilled at working things out strategically.