spreadsheet

English

Etymology

From spread +‎ sheet. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “When was the term first used?”)

Noun

spreadsheet (plural spreadsheets)

1. (computing) A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.
   • 1985 September 15, Erik Snadberg-Diment, “Number Crunching on the Macintosh”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     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.

2. A document created with such an application.

   Synonym: worksheet

   • 2009, Fred Vallance-Jones; David McKie, Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Comprehensive Primer, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 49:

     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.

3. (dated) A sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.

Translations

computer application

• Azerbaijani: elektron cədvəl
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試算表 (zh), 试算表 (zh) (shìsuànbiǎo), 電子表格, 电子表格 (diànzǐ biǎogé)

• Czech: tabulkový procesor m
• Esperanto: kalkultabelo
• Finnish: laskentataulukko (fi)
• French: tableur (fr), chiffrier (fr) m (Canada)
• German: Tabellenkalkulation (de) f, Tabellenkalkulationsprogramm n
• Greek: λογιστικό φύλλο (el) n (logistikó fýllo), υπολογιστικό φύλλο (el) n (ypologistikó fýllo)
• Indonesian: lembar kerja, lembar bentang, lembar kalkulasi, lembatang sebar
• Irish: scarbhileog f
• Italian: foglio di calcolo m
• Japanese: 表計算ソフト (hyōkeisan sofuto), スプレッドシート (supureddoshīto), スプレッド (ja) (supureddo)
• Korean: 스프레드시트 (seupeuredeusiteu)

• Maori: ripanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: regneark n

• Polish: arkusz kalkulacyjny (pl) m
• Portuguese: planilha (pt) f, folha de cálculo f
• Romanian: tabel (ro) n, foaie de calcul f
• Russian: электро́нная табли́ца f (elektrónnaja tablíca)
• Serbo-Croatian: proračunska tablica f, unakrsna tabela f
• Spanish: hoja de cálculo f
• Swedish: kalkylark n
• Turkish: elektronik tablo
• Turkmen: elektron tablisa
• Walloon: tåvleu (wa) m
• Welsh: taenlen f

document

• Catalan: please add this translation if you can

• French: feuille de calcul (fr) f
• German: Tabelle (de) f, Kalkulationstabelle f
• Portuguese: planilha (pt) f, folha de cálculo f
• Spanish: hoja de cálculo f
• Swedish: tabelldokument n

sheet of paper

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: laskentataulukko (fi)
• French: tableur (fr) m
• German: Kalkulationstabelle f
• Japanese: 方眼紙 (ほうがんし, hōganshi)

• Korean: 스프레드시트 (seupeuredeusiteu)
• Maori: ripanga, ripakaute
• Portuguese: planilha (pt) f
• Romanian: tabel (ro) n, foaie de calcul f
• Russian: табли́ца (ru) f (tablíca)
• Swedish: kalkylark n

Verb

spreadsheet (third-person singular simple present spreadsheets, present participle spreadsheeting, simple past and past participle spreadsheeted)

1. (transitive) To model or compute by means of a spreadsheet.
   • 2020, Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface‎^[2], Head of Zeus, →ISBN:

     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.

See also

• layout

Further reading

• spreadsheet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia