Definitions for slide-rule

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slide-rule slide rule

Slide-Rule is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in slide-rule (-deeillrsu).

Definitions for slide-rule

noun

1. a device for performing mathematical calculations, consisting essentially of a ruler having a sliding piece moving along it, both marked with graduated, usually logarithmic, scales: now largely replaced by the electronic calculator.

Origin of slide-rule

1655-65 for earlier sense; 1875-80 for current sense

Examples for slide-rule

Seaton threw down the papers and picked up his slide-rule, a twenty-inch trigonometrical duplex.

I watched him copy the indicated figures, surround them with formulas, and solve mysterious problems with a slide-rule.

The slide-rule (see Calculating Machines) is a simple apparatus for the mechanical application of the methods of logarithms.

This was a little rocket canister which had just enough poof, the slide-rule boys had said, to stop the rotation of the bird.

Hoskins, there, he's going to be a slide-rule, jus' you wait and see.