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tabulator
noun tabulators
- A person who counts or tabulates things.
- The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
- A tab character. 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.
- An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.
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noun person who tabulates
| Español | tabulador |
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noun mechanism on a typewriter
| Ελληνικά | στηλοθέτης stilothétis |
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| Русский | табуля́тор tabuljátor |
noun computing: early data processing machine
| Français | tabulatrice |
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| Русский | табуля́тор tabuljátor |
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@misc{tabulator_2026,
title = {tabulator},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tabulator},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
