Spreadsheet

Spreadsheet
A computer program that organizes numerical data into rows and columns on a terminal screen, for calculating and making adjustments based on new data. The New York Times Financial Glossary

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spreadsheet spread‧sheet [ˈspredʆiːt] noun [countable] COMPUTING
a computer program that can show rows of figures and perform calculations with them. Spreadsheets are often used to work out sales, taxes, profits, and other financial information:

• Most spreadsheets provide a facility for creating graphs and charts from the information held in the model.

• spreadsheet and database programs

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spreadsheet UK US /ˈspredʃiːt/ noun [C] GRAPHS & CHARTS, IT
► a piece of computer software used for showing rows and columns of numbers or other data, and for doing calculations with this data: in/on a spreadsheet »

Information for the graphs can be entered on a spreadsheet.

 open/create/make a spreadsheet »

I created a spreadsheet to help analyse the sales data.

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spreadsheet programs/software

→ See also EXCEL™(Cf. ↑Excel™)

Financial and business terms. 2012.

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  • spreadsheet — 1982, from SPREAD (Cf. spread) + SHEET (Cf. sheet) …   Etymology dictionary

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