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Definition of Abacuses
1. abacus [n] - See also: abacus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abacuses
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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