Definition of "spreadsheet" []

• A piece of paper with rows and columns for recording financial data for use in comparative analysis. (noun)
• Computer Science An accounting or bookkeeping program that displays data in rows and columns on a screen. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "As the spreader wends its way through the fields, the amount of fertilizer sprayed is controlled by the computer (giving new meaning to the term spreadsheet)."
• "Brings me back to the heady days of new software categories, when hundreds of column-inches in Byte were devoted to explaining what a spreadsheet is and why anyone would use it."
• "Boonton, your spreadsheet is extremely sensitive to the rate of pay increases."