| 单词 | data cruncher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdata cruncher 3. colloquial. A person, machine, or system with a capacity for performing complex or lengthy operations with numerical data, computer code, etc. Chiefly with modifying noun specifying the area in which the operations are carried out, as budget cruncher, data cruncher, etc. Cf. number cruncher n.Sometimes derogatory when of a person, with the implication of unimaginative, machine-like activity; cf. number cruncher n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > one who works with numbers accountera1400 arithmetician1557 reckonmaster1570 computator1591 summer1598 computer1613 counter-castera1616 computant1621 accountant1622 logistic1633 numerist1646 cipherera1648 arithmetic1652 computor1669 figure-caster1831 cruncher1971 the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument mesograph1579 mesolabe1579 quipu1581 rods1618 Napier's bones1647 Napier's rods1678 reckoner1757 counter1803 adding machine1822 operameter1830 virgulaa1831 adder1856 computer1869 arithmometer1876 perforation gauge1882 Cuisenaire rod1954 number line1964 number cruncher1966 cruncher1971 1971 Jrnl. Business 44 465/2 The authors raise a number of analytical issues concerning the general interpretation and use of mortgage rate series which many ‘data crunchers’ simply ignore or overlook. 1986 Washington Post 30 Dec. (Health Suppl.) 7/4 Budget-crunchers in the administration also fear that congressional Democrats may seek to fund such a plan not wholly from revenues. 1989 PC Mag. (U.K. ed.) July 115/1 (advt.) ZyIndex is a word cruncher's dream. 1998 S. King Bag of Bones viii. 109 He started when memory was stored on magnetic tape instead of in computer chips and a warehouse-sized cruncher called UNIVAC was state-of-the-art. 2018 @AndrewMLondon 3 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 21 July 2020) If you think developers are just code-crunchers, you've been talking to the wrong Dev (or talking to the right ones wrong). < as lemmas |
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