Definition of Abacuses

1. Noun. (plural of abacus) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abacuses

1. abacus [n] - See also: abacus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abacuses

abackward
abacost
abacot
abacs
abacterial
abacterial thrombotic endocarditis
abacterially
abactinal
abactinally
abaction
abactor
abactors
abaculi
abaculus
abacus
abacuses (current term)
abada
abadas
abade
abaft
abafungin
abagovomab
abagun
abaguns
abaht
abaisance
abaisances
abaiser
abaisers
abaisse

Literary usage of Abacuses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Architectural History of Chichester Cathedral by Robert Willis, John Louis Petit, Edmund Sharpe (1861)
"There is a singular mixture of square and round abacuses throughout the work of the second period. In the clerestories throughout the building, ..."

2. Oost kunst: kunst in het oostelijk havengebied van Amsterdam = East art ...by Hans Epskamp, Bert Jansen by Hans Epskamp, Bert Jansen (2001)
"Series of stylized abacuses, flat slabs found on the tops of classical pillars, ... His images are located on the 96 abacuses in the colonnade, ..."

3. Methods of social reform and other papers by William Stanley Jevons, ( (1883)
"... diagrams, abacuses, chairs and tables, models of all sorts of things, forming, I believe, the educational collections of the Science and Art Department. ..."

4. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1895)
"... is the manufacture of abacuses (soroban), or calculating machines. The city of Kioto, that is to say, " Capital," called also Miako, or the " Residence ..."

5. Essential Skills in Mathematics: A Comparative Analysis of American and by John A. Dossey, Lois Peak, Dawn Nelson (1997)
"Students could approach this by considering the relationship existing between the abacuses and ordinales in the other two ordered pairs given, ..."

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