analytical engine

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analytical engine (plural analytical engines)

  1. (computing, historical) A mechanical general-purpose computer, designed by Charles Babbage but never built.
    • 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
      "It is an analytical engine, or, to use the more common term, a calculating machine, as you say," assented the inventor.

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