difference engine

English

Noun

difference engine (plural difference engines)

1. (computing, historical) A mechanical special-purpose computer used to generate tables of values of polynomials.

Translations

computer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 差分機／差分机 (chāfēnjī)

• Finnish: differenssikone
• German: Differenzmaschine f
• Hungarian: differenciálgép
• Japanese: 階差機関 (kaisa kikan)
• Korean: 차분기관 (chabun'gigwan)
• Portuguese: máquina diferencial f
• Spanish: máquina diferencial f
• Swedish: differensmaskin c

See also

• analytical engine