slide rule

slide rule

English

Noun

slide rule (plural slide rules)

1. An analog calculator consisting of three interlocking strips marked with logarithmic scales, such that multiplication, division etc. can be performed by the equivalent of addition and subtraction.

Synonyms

• slipstick

Translations

analog calculator

Arabic: مِسْطَرَة حَاسِبَة‎ f (misṭara ḥāsiba) Azerbaijani: loqarifmik xətkeş Belarusian: лагарыфмі́чная ліне́йка f (laharyfmíčnaja linjéjka) Bulgarian: логаритми́чна лини́йка f (logaritmíčna liníjka) Chinese: Mandarin: 計算尺／计算尺 (zh) (jìsuànchǐ), 算尺 (zh) (suànchǐ) Czech: logaritmické pravítko n Danish: regnestok c Dutch: rekenliniaal m Estonian: arvutuslükati Finnish: laskutikku (fi) French: règle à calcul (fr) f Galician: regla de cálculo f German: Rechenschieber (de) m Greek: λογαριθμικός κανόνας m (logarithmikós kanónas) Hindi: विसर्पी गणक (visarpī gaṇak) Hungarian: logarléc (hu) Ido: kalkulo-linealo Italian: regolo calcolatore m Japanese: 計算尺 (けいさんじゃく, keisanjaku) Korean: 계산척 (gyesancheok) Latvian: logaritmiskais lineāls m Polish: suwak logarytmiczny (pl) m Portuguese: régua de cálculo f Romanian: riglă de calcul (ro) f Russian: логарифми́ческая лине́йка (ru) f (logarifmíčeskaja linéjka) Spanish: regla de cálculo f Swedish: räknesticka (sv) c Tagalog: dulas-galod Turkish: sürgülü hesap cetveli Ukrainian: логарифмі́чна ліні́йка f (loharyfmíčna liníjka) Vietnamese: thước loga

Further reading

• slide rule on Wikipedia.Wikipedia