tabulator

See also: tabulátor and tabülatör

English

Etymology

tabulate + -or

Noun

tabulator (plural tabulators)

  1. A person who counts or tabulates things.
  2. The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
  3. (computing) A tab character.
    • 2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C#, page 110:
      You can put a tabulator in all those places where a space is allowed. A tabulator character corresponds to, for example, 4 spaces in the program editor.
  4. (computing, historical) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tabulateur.

Noun

tabulator n (plural tabulatoare)

  1. tabulator

Declension

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