Abacus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABACUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a counting frame using beads
• a simple device for calculating, consisting of a frame with rows of wires or grooves along which beads are slid.
• the flat slab on top of a capital, supporting the architrave.
• mathematical instrument
• A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.
• 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.
• The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.
• A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.
• A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard.
• a tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave
• a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a calculating device

Words related to ABACUS

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Words that contain ABACUS

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How to use ABACUS in a sentence

• The capitals are of the bell form, ornamented with all kinds of foliage, and have a narrow but high abacus.
• The abacus of the Roman and Chinese extended the scope of simple mathematical operations as it employed more symbolic elements.
• The vast columns, with the sudden tapering, the overhanging capitals, the stern, square abacus, all betoken the infancy of art.
• These pillars have each a green abacus at the top of each capital and scarlet bead below.
• Containing all the numerical and harmonic relations, and all the properties of the numbers which precede it, it concludes the Abacus or Table of Pythagoras.
• Abacus, the Table of Pythagoras, concluded by the number ten, 638-m.
• Ten, concludes the Abacus or Table of Pythagoras, 638-m.
• From the top stair a doorway opens to the exterior of the abacus, which will be enclosed with a massive iron railing, so as to form a prospect gallery.
• That part of the structure which is, strictly speaking, upon the abacus of the column, has a domed roof, upon which will be placed the colossal statue, executed in bronze, by Mr.

Similar words containing ABACU without suffix s

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