pocket calculator

noun

: a calculator that can fit in a shirt pocket

Examples of pocket calculator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Consider the simple case of multiplying two numbers on a pocket calculator. — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Feb. 2026

This display, with the font style of a digital watch or pocket calculator, adds to the Quad 3’s modern-retro design appeal. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025

Machines have been solving mathematical problems for decades going back to the pocket calculator. — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2023

Much as the pocket calculator long ago caused arithmetic skills to atrophy, newer technologies have made history ubiquitous instead of chronological, let alone explanatory. — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023

Your pocket calculator can calculate numbers better than most people. — Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013

Rhymes for pocket calculator

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• accumulator
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