Crossword clues for abaci
abaci
- You can always count on them
- Old counting devices
- Eastern adders?
- Counters in China
- Collectible calculators
- Clicking counters
- Calculators that don't need batteries
- Calculating machines of old
- Beady calculators
- Beaded adders?
- Bead counters
- Ancient adders
- Y2K-compliant calculator
- Wooden counters?
- Wooden counters of old
- Very old calculators
- Things with beads
- They add up
- Summers in the East?
- Summers back in the day?
- Some wooden counters
- Slide rule precursors
- Simple counting devices
- Simple calculators
- Rudimentary calculators
- Rattling adders
- Quaint calculators
- Old-style counters
- Old computers?
- Mechanical calculators
- Hand calculators
- Folks counted on them for years
- Eastern summers?
- Eastern counters
- Early summers
- Early adding devices
- Devices also called counting frames
- Crude counter
- Crude adders
- Counting tools
- Counting gadgets
- Counting frames
- Counters with wooden frames
- Counters of old
- Counter examples?
- Clicking calculators
- Chinese counters
- Chinese calculators
- Calculators with sliding beads
- Calculators often made with bamboo frames
- Calculator with no batteries
- Beady counters
- Beaded counting machines
- Beaded adders
- Bead counters for bean counters
- Battery-free calculators
- Basic calculators
- Bamboo-and-wire gadgets
- Asian counters
- Arithmetic-teaching devices
- Ancient counting tools
- Addition aids
- Adders from ancient Egypt
- Calculation aids
- Old adders
- Precalculator calculators
- Counters with beads
- Old-style calculators
- Old math aids
- Primitive calculators
- They give sum help?
- Early adders
- Pre-PC counters
- Primitive adders
- You can count on them!
- Summers in the Far East?
- Simple adding devices
- Crude counters
- Bead counters?
- Adders with beads
- Early calculators
- Basic counters
- Simple counters
- Calculators with beads
- Primitive counters
- Where people move 31-Acrosses back and forth
- Beaded counters
- Summers of old?
- Early counters
- They can always be counted on
- Noisy counters
- Classroom clickers of old
- Wager of war against Parthia
- Counting devices
- Computing devices
- Ancient computers
- Early summers?
- They're to be counted on
- Slide calculators
- Calculators of sorts
- Beaded calculators
- Early computers
- Manual computers
- Calculating instruments
- Old calculators
- Calculators' ancestors
- Primitive computers
- Graduate about to invest in artificial intelligence calculators
- Counters vehicle reversing in the Great North Road
- Counters one clique's cut with recession
- Counters early characters about a source of illumination
- Where people move 31-Acro
- Artificial intelligence, holding degree: key to manufacturing old computers
- Leaders in America and Belarus are cheating in counting methods
- These help with numbers from half-hearted band on islands
- Taxi back into capital on which people may be counting?
- Ancient calculators
- Old counters
- Low-tech calculators
- Manual calculators
- Calculators of old
- You can count on these
- Summers in China?
- Calculators of yore
- Ancient counters
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abacus \Ab"a*cus\ ([a^]b"[.a]*k[u^]s), n.; E. pl. Abacuses; L. pl. Abaci (-s[imac]). [L. abacus, abax, Gr. 'a`bax]
A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Obs.]
A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.
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(Arch.)
The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.
A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.
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A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard.
Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument.
--Crabb.
Wiktionary
n. (en-irregular plural of: abacus)
WordNet
See abacus
n: a tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave
a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves
[also: abaci (pl)]
Usage examples of "abaci".
To match up the numbers on the scratch paper with the numbers left on the abaci, and thus to compile a flash-frozen image of the calculations that were underway in that room when the apocalypse struck, is not that difficult—at least, by the standards of difficulty that apply during wartime, when, for example, landing several thousand men and tons of equipment on a remote island and taking it from heavily armed, suicidal Japanese troops with the loss of only a few dozen lives is considered to be easy.
They just happen to be exactly the same numbers that were frozen on certain abaci down in the room of the computer slaves.
Two abaci rattling in tandem the whole day long, one changing the shape of the world and the other one deploring the cost.