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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]
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?”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
spreadsheet (plural spreadsheets)
- (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.
- A document created with such an application.
- Synonym: worksheet
- (dated) A sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.
Translations[edit]
computer application
document
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sheet of paper
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Verb[edit]
spreadsheet (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.
- 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.
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Further reading[edit]
spreadsheet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia