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plural spreadsheets
(computing) A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form. quotations examples
The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.
1985 September 15, Erik Snadberg-Diment, “Number Crunching on the Macintosh”, in The New York Times
A document created with such an application. quotations examples
A little later in this chapter, we'll run through some of the most common methods journalists use to analyze the material they gather and store in spreadsheets.
2009, Fred Vallance-Jones, David McKie, Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Comprehensive Primer, Oxford University Press, page 49
(dated) A sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually. examples
third-person singular simple present spreadsheets, present participle spreadsheeting, simple past and past participle spreadsheeted
(transitive) To model or compute by means of a spreadsheet. quotations examples
If you'd spreadsheeted the cascade charts and sorted it by each name's sphere of influence, then the people Carrie Johnstone sent the police to get constituted a big chunk of the middle third—people who “commanded” maybe four of five others—and maybe 10 percent of the top influencers.
2020, Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface, Head of Zeus