0 a machine in a shop or other business that records sales and into which money received is put
1 a machine in a store or other business in which money is stored and that records sales
2 a machine in a store or other business that records each sale and where money that is received is kept:
It's how good ideas happen in business—people working at the cash register figure stuff out, and they tell their bosses.
The drawer of the cash register shot out with a metallic clang.
Then he turned to the cash register, and punched up five cents, and began to pull money out of the drawer.
We have the cash register to educate our clerks into pure and honest character, and the souls of conductors can be seen being nurtured, mile after mile, by fare-recorders.
Since a cash register may be regarded as a cognitive system, it must be studied at three different levels.
For a cash register, everybody knows the answer: the properties of addition correspond to the logical constraints of exchange.
Consider now the second question: why does a cash register add the prices of the various purchases?
At the computational level, two questions must be answered: what function does a cash register compute and why does it compute this function?
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(商店等的)現金進出紀錄機,現金出納機,收銀機…
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(商店等的)现金进出记录机,现金出纳机,收银机…
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kasa, alışveriş kasası…
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