Associations to the word «Tabulator»

Wiktionary

TABULATOR, noun. A person who counts or tabulates things.
TABULATOR, noun. The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
TABULATOR, noun. (computing) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.

Dictionary definition

TABULATOR, noun. A calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats