What is another word for abacus?

Pronunciation: [ˈabakəs] (IPA)

The word "abacus" is defined as "a frame with rows of wires or grooves along which beads are slid, used for calculating." Some synonyms for the word abacus include counting frame, calculating device, arithmetic board, and calculating frame. These terms are used interchangeably to refer to the same ancient tool used for basic arithmetic calculations. In some cultures, it is also known by other names, such as suanpan in China or soroban in Japan. While technological advances have largely replaced the need for the abacus in modern times, it remains an important symbol of mathematical theory and innovation.

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Usage examples for Abacus

In order that the day should not be wholly destitute of sunshine at the Golden abacus, Lin declared his intention of purchasing, at a price not exceeding three taels and a half, the oldest and most unattractive burial robe that the stock contained.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
"Counting the cost" is in things temporal the only wise course, as in the building of a tower; but there are times in the life of an individual, of a people, when the things that are eternal force themselves into the calculation, and the abacus is nowhere.
"The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915"
Basil L. Gildersleeve
Arithmetic holds the table of the abacus, and under her sits Abraham, its inventor.
"The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)"
Giorgio Vasari

Famous quotes with Abacus

  • Paradine blinked. The "abacus," unfolded, was more than a foot square, composed of thing, rigid wires that interlocked here and there. On the wires colored beads were strung. They could be slid back and forth, and from one support to another, even at the points of juncture.
    Lewis Padgett
  • This time there were no shocks, even slight. The abacus had showed him the correct method. Now it was up to him to do it on his own.
    Lewis Padgett
  • Emma was sliding the beads to and fro in the abacus. The motions didn't seem so strange now.
    Lewis Padgett

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