English Dictionary

computress

名詞

女性形 活用形 廃用 稀用

(obsolete, uncommon) female equivalent of computer (a person employed to perform computations; one who computes)

日本語の意味

女性の計算者、すなわち（計算作業を行う）女性の職業者。なお、この用語は時代遅れで一般的ではありません。

As the observatory's only computress, she spent long nights verifying the star charts.

その観測所で唯一の女性計算係として、彼女は星図を検証するために夜遅くまで働いた。

意味（1）

(obsolete, uncommon) female equivalent of computer (a person employed to perform computations; one who computes)

Picture a girl, we usually call her a computress, using a desk calculator. Suppose we had given her a sheet of paper containing several columns of numbers and suppose further we had given her a set of written instructions directing her to sum each column of numbers and then to divide each sum by the number of entries in its column so as to find the average of each column, and finally to enter this value below the appropriate column. Notice that the computress in this task performs […]

computresses （ plural ）