tabulator

See also: tabulátor and tabülatör

English

Etymology

From tabulate ‎ -or.

Noun

tabulator (plural tabulators)

1. A person who counts or tabulates things.
2. The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
3. (computing) A tab character.
   • 2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C#, page 110:

     You can put a tabulator in all those places where a space is allowed. A tabulator character corresponds to, for example, 4 spaces in the program editor.

4. (computing, historical) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.

Translations

person who tabulates

• Finnish: laskija (fi)
• Spanish: tabulador (es) m

mechanism on a typewriter

• Catalan: tabulador m
• Czech: tabulátor m
• Finnish: sarkain (fi), tabulaattori (fi)
• Greek: στηλοθέτης m (stilothétis)
• Russian: табуля́тор (ru) m (tabuljátor)

computing: early data processing machine

• Finnish: tabulaattori (fi)
• French: tabulatrice (fr) f
• Russian: табуля́тор (ru) m (tabuljátor)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tabulateur.

Noun

tabulator n (plural tabulatoare)

1. tabulator

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tabulator	tabulatorul		tabulatoare	tabulatoarele
genitive-dative	tabulator	tabulatorului		tabulatoare	tabulatoarelor
vocative	tabulatorule			tabulatoarelor