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noun
A cylinder with a set of teeth of incremental lengths which, when coupled to a counting wheel, can be used in the calculating engine of a class of mechanical calculators.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1673.
