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    Abacus
    • (n.) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. • (n.) 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, e...
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    abacus
    (from the article `capital`) Two simple forms of the capital are a square wooden block called an abacus, placed on the top of a post, and an oblong block called a billet, set ... ...of the shaft but which is set off from it visually by one or more narrow grooves; the echinus, a circular block that b...
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    abacus
    calculating device, probably of Babylonian origin, that was long important in commerce. It is the ancestor of the modern calculating machine and ... [4 related articles]
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    abacus
    abacus (s); abaci (pl) 1. A manual computing device consisting of a frame holding parallel rods strung with movable counters. 2. In architecture, a slab on the top of the capital of a column.
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    Abacus
    An abacus is a counting frame with balls sliding on wires. It was first used before the adoption of the ten digit numeric system and is still widely used in China.
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    Abacus
    In architecture the term abacus is refers to the flat square slab of masonry that forms the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. it is a very essential feature in the Grecian and Roman orders. In the Grecian Doric the abacus has simply the form o...
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    Abacus
    [architecture] 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 (wider t...
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    Abacus
    The abacus, also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes. 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 w...
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    Abacus
    The topmost member of the capital of a column.
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    Chinese abacus A counting frame that started out, several thousand years ago, as rows of pebbles in the desert sands of the Middle East. The word appears to come from the Hebrew âbâq ('dust') or the Phoenician abak ('sand') via the Greek abax, which refers to a small tray covered with sand to h......
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    abacus
    abacus (ăb'ukus, ubăk'–) , in mathematics, simple device for performing arithmetic calculations. The type of abacus now best known is represented by a frame with sliding counters. An elementary abacus might have ten parallel wires strung between two boards on a frame, with ...
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    abacus
    abacus (ăb'ukus) , in architecture, flat slab forming the top member of a capital. In classical orders it varies from a square form having unmolded sides in the Greek Doric, to thinner proportions and ovolo molding in the Greek Ionic, and to sides incurving and corners cut in Roman Ionic a...
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    abacus
    Ancient calculating device made up of a frame of parallel wires on which beads are strung. The method of calculating with a handful of stones on a `flat surface` (Latin abacus) was familiar to the Greeks and Romans, and used by earlier peoples, possibly even in ancient Babylon; it survives in...
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