See also:

• CASH

CASH See also:

• REGISTER

REGISTER  , a See also:

• SPECIES

species of calculating See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine adapted for use in connexion with the See also:

• CASH

cash-tills of shops, in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to provide a See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of the See also:

• MONEY

money received . Such See also:

• MACHINES

machines are made in See also:

• GREAT

great variety and widely used . Sometimes the records are constituted by holes punched in a See also:

• ROLL (O. Fr. rolle, roulle, mod. role, Lat. rotulus, dim. of rota, wheel)
• ROLL, ALFRED PHILIPPE (1846– )

roll of See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper; in other cases they are shown on dials by the aid of adding mechanism . A See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form has a number of keys, each representing a particular sum and each attached to a counting mechanism which records how many times it has been used . By pressing appropriate combinations of these keys the amount of any See also:

• PURCHASE

purchase can be registered, and the combined records of all the countingmechanism give the See also:

• TOTAL

total that has been passed through the machine in any selected See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period . Each See also:

• KEY
• KEY (in O. Eng. tang; the ultimate origin of the word is unknown; it appears only in Old Frisian kei of other Teutonic languages; until the end of the 17th century the pronunciation was kay, as in other words in O. Eng. ending in aeg; cf. daeg, day; clang
• KEY (the phraseograms being indicated by hyphens)
• KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888)
• KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875)

key when pressed also raises an See also:

• INDICATOR (from Lat. indicare, to point out)

indicator which informs the customer how much he has to pay . In their more elaborate forms these cash registers may have a See also:

• SEPARATE

separate money-drawer for each assistant employed in the See also:

• SHOP

shop, thus enabling the proprietor to ascertain how many customers each See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man has served and how much money he has taken, and also to See also:

• FIX, THEODORE (180o-1846)

fix responsibility for mistakes, See also:

• BAD, BCD

bad money, &c . The machines are also made to deliver a printed See also:

• RECEIPT (M.E. receite, derived through Fr. from Lat. recepta, participle of recipere, to receive)

receipt for each purchase, showing the amount, date and assistant concerned, and they may be arranged to keep separate records of See also:

• CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

credit sales, money received on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account, and money paid out .