stepped reckoner

noun

A very early mechanical calculator (completed in 1694) invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Meanings

nounstepped reckoner (plural stepped reckoners)

plural stepped reckoners

  1. historicalA very early mechanical calculator (completed in 1694) invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
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