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Slipstick

noun
1.
Analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators.  Synonym: slide rule.





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"Slipstick" Quotes from Famous Books



... to his hand. "But eventually, even the Space Service gets around to putting two and two together on the slipstick. The incidents kept piling up. A pilot comes back from Epsilon Eridani, for example, and insists on giving everybody left-handed salutes. Another has taken a scout ship to 61 Cygni. He insists at the Officers Club that Colonel Sagen here has a nickname ...
— Next Door, Next World • Robert Donald Locke


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