spreadsheet

plural spreadsheets

1. computingA computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.

   The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.

   1985 September 15, Erik Snadberg-Diment, “Number Crunching on the Macintosh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

2. A document created with such an application.

   For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code.

   2014 July 15, Theck, “TC101: Intro to Theorycrafting”, in Sacred Duty

   1 more example

   A little later in this chapter, we'll run through some of the most common methods journalists use to analyze the material they gather and store in spreadsheets.

   2009, Fred Vallance-Jones, David McKie, Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Comprehensive Primer, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 49

   Synonyms: worksheet

3. datedA sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.

present singular third person spreadsheets · participle present spreadsheeting · participle past spreadsheeted · past spreadsheeted

1. transitiveTo model or compute by means of a spreadsheet.

   If you'd spreadsheeted the cascade charts and sorted it by each name's sphere of influence, then the people Carrie Johnstone sent the police to get constituted a big chunk of the middle third—people who “commanded” maybe four of five others—and maybe 10 percent of the top influencers.

   2020, Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface, Head of Zeus, →ISBN