Spreadsheet Meaning
/ˈspɹɛd.ʃiːt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.
nounA document created with such an application.
Sentence Examples
Once you get the hang of it, spreadsheet software is really useful.
The link to your spreadsheet has invalid characters.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The accountant entered the numbers into a ____ to calculate the total profit for the year.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The accountant created a complex ____ to track all the company's monthly expenses and revenues.
Word Origin & History
From spread + sheet.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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, →ISSN:
"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, →ISBN, page 49:
"For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code."
— 2014 July 15, Theck, “TC101: Intro to Theorycrafting”, in Sacred Duty:
"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, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The accountant entered the numbers into a ____ to calculate the total profit for the year.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The accountant created a complex ____ to track all the company's monthly expenses and revenues.