Crossword clues for abacus
abacus
- Early summer?
- Chinese calculator
- Calculator precursor
- Beaded calculator
- Bead-frame calculator
- Bead calculator
- Ancient adder
- Adding device of old
- Simple calculating device
- Simple adding device
- Primitive counting device
- Primitive calculator
- Precalculator calculator
- Old-world adder?
- Old computer?
- Non-electronic calculator
- Mechanical calculator
- Math toy for kids
- Kind of calculator
- Item once popular in counter culture?
- It may be counted on
- Instrument made from bamboo
- Gadget you can count on?
- Frame + beads + wires
- Eastern summer
- Eastern computer
- Counter-intuitive calculator?
- Computer ancestor
- Clicking counter
- Clicking calculator
- Classical calculator
- Chinese calculating frame
- Calculator's cousin
- Calculator with beads
- Calculator that has no on-off switch
- Calculator that doesn't need batteries
- Calculator of old
- Calculator of a sort
- Beaded device
- Bead-based calculator
- Bead counter?
- Basic adding machine
- As a cub (anag)
- Arithmetic class device
- Ancient calculating tool
- Old store counter
- You can count on it?
- Counting aid
- Calculator of a kind
- Item with beads
- Early computer
- Beaded counter
- You can always count on this
- Device you can count on
- Ancestor of a calculator
- Calculator that doesn't shut off
- A calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves
- A tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave
- Computer of a sort
- Counting board
- Calculating device
- Soroban
- Manual calculator
- Crude calculator
- Earliest computer
- Calculator's ancestor
- Grab a customer pinching calculator
- Counting machine
- Counting frame
- Counter on which to tell one’s beads
- Counter on which one may tell one's beads?
- Counter attack’s beginning - support us after King decamps
- Cooling system in a vehicle that's helpful for summer?
- Calculating frame
- Old counter?
- Former Eurovision winners swear out loud? You can count on it
- A taxi brought over American? One may count on it
- A trucker's place, erected on American frame of sorts
- A church abandoning God for something they can count on
- Tot with this baby face? Busy wiping walls
- Early calculator
- Old calculator
- Counting device
- Computing device
- Asian calculator
- Ancestor of the adding machine
- Ancient calculator
- Tool that's counter-productive?
- Low-tech calculator
- Erstwhile calculator
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "sand table for drawing, calculating, etc.," from Latin abacus, from Greek abax (genitive abakos) "counting table," from Hebrew abaq "dust," from root a-b-q "to fly off." Originally a drawing board covered with dust or sand that could be written on to do mathematical equations. Specific reference to a counting frame is 17c. or later.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. (Attested from around 1350 (1387) until around 1470.)(R:CDOE: page=2). 2 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. (First attested in the late 17th century.)(R:SOED5: page=2) 3 (context architecture English) The uppermost portion of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. (First attested in the mid 16th century.) 4 A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. (First attested in the late 18th century.)
WordNet
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)]
Wikipedia
The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use in Europe, China and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system and is still used by merchants, traders and clerks in some parts of Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Africa. Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.
In architecture, an abacus (from the Greek abax, slab; or French abaque, tailloir; plural abacuses or abaci) is a flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, above the bell. Its chief function is to provide a large supporting surface, tending to be wider than the capital, to receive the weight of the arch or the architrave above. The diminutive of abacus, abaculus, is used to describe small mosaic tiles, also called abaciscus or tessera, used to create ornamental floors with detailed patterns of chequers or squares in a tessellated pavement.
Abacus: A Journal of Accounting, Finance and Business Studies is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Accounting Foundation ( University of Sydney). It was established in 1965 and the editor-in-chief is Stewart Jones (University of Sydney).
An abacus is a counting frame.
Abacus may also refer to:
- Mental abacus, mental calculation method inspired by the abacus
- Logical abacus, an early mechanical digital computer
- Abacus (architecture), a flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column
- Abacus checkers, a two-player Chinese game played on a Suanpan abacus
- Abacus Harmonicus, an ancient diagram showing the structure and placement of the keys of a particular musical instrument
- as (part of) a proper name
- Abacus (GDS), a global distribution system used in travel
- Abacus (journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal
- Abacus, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
- Abacus, a Zagat-rated restaurant in Dallas, Texas, owned by chef Kent Rathbun
- Abacus Software, a producer of payware add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Abacus 5, an action sports manufacturing and distribution company headquartered in Shanghai
- Abacus Records, an imprint of Century Media Records
- Abacus school, a type of Renaissance-era Italian trade school
- Abacus Federal Savings Bank, an overseas Chinese bank in the United States
- Abacus-2007AC1, a financial instrument and the subject of SEC v. Goldman Sachs, et al. (2010)
- Operation Abacus, the Canadian military operation to restore vital services if the year 2000 caused disruption
- Abacus–Australian Mutuals, the industry body representing the credit unions, building societies and mutual banks that constitute the Australian mutual or cooperative banking sector
- Abacus (band), a heavy metal band formed in 2005 from northern Ontario, Canada.
Usage examples of "abacus".
Trade was hampered by widespread piracy, agriculture was so inefficient that the population was never fed adequately, the name exchequer emerged to describe the royal treasury because the officials were so deficient in arithmetic they were forced to use a chequered cloth as a kind of abacus when making calculations.
The abaci of the Early English capitals in the main arcade are of Barnack stone, which is harder than clunch and so more suitable for bearing a weight.
If we cannot save their souls in time, Miss Abacus, all they will come to is corruption and licence, drunkenness and thieving!
A glass case displayed ivory netsuke, a comb and brush set of mother-of-pearl, earrings of black pearl and golden filigree, everything a little chipped, a little shabby, and over it all reigned thin, dyspeptic Agawa at the counter with an abacus, ashtray and pack of Golden Bats.
The Abacus is the main accounting algorithm for Teleman Milt on Mercury.
Mary took up her abacus and fled from the brothel, running wildly into the dockland night.
Washington Abacus, Physiognomic Operator and Professor of the Tonsorial Art.
The shroff was clicking on his abacus, and left off snicking the beads up and down to remark casually that the compradore had gone.
Both shroffs checked the weight of each small bar of gold twice, then the weight each of the stacks of chipped coins, then used an abacus to calculate the total against the current rate of exchange.
She could have spoken to Kelly through the very chairs and tables themselves, but doing so always produced a harsh, slightly inhuman sound that reminded them both of the voice of the Abacus, the Teller, and the other free converts who worked at the office.
Finally they lay in a row on the table, cube, abacus, doll, helmetlike cap, several other mysterious contraptions.
Finally they lay in a row on the table: cube, abacus, doll, helmetlike cap, several other mysterious contraptions.
Limbo must look like this, I thought: and the unenticing room had in fact drawn the sort of audience you could count on fingers and toes and still have enough left over for an abacus.
Around the Settler stood generals and noblemen, a few Bedouin chiefs in goathair robes and ha'ik, mullahs in black, servants with flasks of iced sherbert, crouching clerks and accountants with paper and pen and abacus.
Lord Huang, however, continues to extend himself upon a faith in the Astronomers ever in need of re-convincing, wagering ever more stupendous Sums upon the ecliptick Innocence of ev'ryone else, not only Silk-Merchants but presently Bankers, other Lords, and their Generals, until the terrible Day when Hsi or Ho, or both, whilst casting Calculations for an upcoming Total Solar Eclipse, with fingers Greas'd from the giant platter-ful of Dim Sum, which, having given their personal gold Chop-Sticks away as tokens of desire to the operatick Personage Miss Chen, they are absent-mindedly eating from by Hand, happen to mis-count enough critical Beads of the Abacus to throw their Prediction off by hours.