Meanings
nounscientific calculator (plural scientific calculators)
plural scientific calculators
- computingAn electronic calculator that can handle trigonometric, exponential and often other advanced functions, and can show its output in scientific notation and sometimes in hexadecimal, octal or binary.
Translations
Finnish tieteislaskin, funktiolaskin
- tieteislaskintype of calculator
- funktiolaskintype of calculator
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