Obsolete form of counting house.

The chief accountant of a company or government.

Abbreviation of Computing Technology Industry Association.

The financial work of a comptroller.

plural of comptometer

A mechanical or electromechanical calculator; an adding machine without a crank, driven instead by keypress.

(obsolete) A counter (token used for keeping count). / (historical) A prison attached to a city court; a counter.

plural of compter

plural of comptroller

(physics) The increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the energy, of photons (especially of X-rays and gamma rays) when scattered by interaction with matter