Other forms: spreadsheets
A spreadsheet is a program of rows and columns for numbers and calculations. Open a spreadsheet, a spreadsheet formula, export to a spreadsheet.
The cell that recalculates when its inputs change is the whole idea, and VisiCalc in 1979 is widely credited with selling the first personal computers to businesses. Spreadsheets now run an enormous share of the world's actual decision-making, and spreadsheet errors have caused real financial and policy disasters. Note that the name comes from the spread of a paper ledger across two facing pages.
1nounspreadsheetA program of rows and columns for numbers and calculations.
“I keep track of all our monthly bills in a spreadsheet.”
spreadsheet is a computer program.
Spread plus sheet. A spread sheet was a ledger page laid across two facing pages, and the software took the name when it took the job.
From spread + sheet.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA