1) Accounting journal 2) Adding device 3) Adding device of old 4) Ancestor of a calculator 5) Ancient adder 6) Ancient adding device 7) Ancient calculating tool 8) Ancient calculator 9) Ancient computer 10) Ancient mathematical device 11) Arithmetic class device 12) Arithmetic device 13) Asian calculator
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• (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, etc. It is still employed in China. • (n.) The...
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The topmost member of the capital of a column.
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(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 bulges outward at its ... [2 related...
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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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Flat portion on top of a capital.
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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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In the Doric Order, the abacus is a square slab that sits on top of the column's capital and supports the architrave or arch. The function of an abacus is to broaden the support provided by the column.
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Flat portion on top of a capital.
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Counting using coloured balls on a wire frame. Early calculator. Click here to see image of an Abacus
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the flat slab which sits on top of a capital. See Classical Architecture.
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1. A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. ... 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. It is still employed in China. ... 3. The uppermost member o...
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flat portion on top of a capital
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See COLUMN.
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This was a wooden frame with beads on it. It was used to help children with counting sums.
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Ab'a·cus (ăb'ȧ*kŭs) noun ; English plural Abacuses ; Latin plural Abaci (-sī). [ Latin abacus , abax , Greek 'a`bax ] 1. A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [ Obsolete] 2.
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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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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 of a square tile without either chamfer or moulding...
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In architecture, a flat slab that sits on top of a capital and beneath the architrave. It is also called an impost block. Also see: capital, column, cornice, Corinthian, Doric, entablature, frieze, Ionic, shaft, stylobate.
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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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flat portion on top of a capital
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noun a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves
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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 the more sophisticated ...
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Beads on a wire or wood frame used for counting and doing sums.
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a device for making arithmetic calculations, consisting of a frame set with rods on which balls or beads are moved. · a slab forming the top of the capital of a column. See diag. under
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