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Definition of Shwanpan
1. n. See Schwan- pan.
Definition of Shwanpan
1. swanpan [n -S] - See also: swanpan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shwanpan
Literary usage of Shwanpan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"A man who uses the shwanpan can tell the amount of a column of figures the moment
they are read off to him. The Greeks and Romans made use of the abacus in ..."
2. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1906)
"Pictures may be obtained ranging from that of the Chinaman with his shwanpan to
a view of the actuarial department of one of our great life insurance ..."
3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquitiesby William George Smith, Charles Anthon by William George Smith, Charles Anthon (1870)
"... weight, &c., is the tenth part of the next greater one, this instrument, called
shwanpan, is very much used, and with astonishing rapidity. ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"From early times the necessity or aids to calculation has been felt and has been
met by simple contrivances, such aa the Abacus, shwanpan, Napier's Bones, ..."
5. On the Foundation and Technic of Arithmetic by George Bruce Halsted (1912)
"... call shwanpan, reckoning board, and the Japanese call soroban, they count and
perform their arithmetical calculations. In many languages there are not ..."
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