slide rule

noun

: a manual device used for calculation that consists in its simple form of a ruler and a movable middle piece which are graduated with similar logarithmic scales

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Indeed, the term itself appears to have been coined just after World War II, at which point shipbuilders were already doing it at enormous scale to lengthen warships, in some of the most complex engineering work ever attempted in the slide rule era. —

New Atlas, 7 Sep. 2024 There’s no need to turn back the clock to the days of typewriters and slide rules, but our universities could benefit from prioritizing good old-fashioned interaction. —

Aden Barton, Washington Post, 9 July 2024 McNeil continued to yell at second base umpire Jonathan Parra while the Mets challenged the force out call for a slide rule violation. —

Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2024 As typewriters once symbolized the writer, slide rules symbolized the engineer. —

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