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1. An electromechanical machine designed to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting.
   "In its basic form, a tabulating machine would read one card at a time, print portions (fields) of the card on fan-fold paper, possibly rearranged, and add one or more numbers punched on the card to one or more counters, called accumulators.";
   - tabulator

Type of: machine

Encyclopedia: Tabulating machine