slipstick



slipstick

n. a slide rule. (Very common a few decades ago, a slide rule is a computing device that allowed the user to compute by positioning moveable scales printed on various sliding parts of the rule.) Who carries a slipstick these days?

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Melqart-Near Eastern Mythology
Blanchard-Ancient Germanic
Aleksandroah-lek-SAHN-droEsperanto
Johanoyo-HAH-noEsperanto
Jevrem-Serbian
ViktorVIK-tawr (German), VEEK-tahr (Russian)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukraini