abacus
suomi-englanti sanakirjaabacus englannista suomeksi
helmitaulu, abakus
katelaatta
Substantiivi
abacus englanniksi
A table or tray scattered with sand which was used for calculating or drawing. (defdate)
(quote-book)|chapter=X|translator=John Trevisa|editor=Rawson Lumby|Joseph Rawson Lumby|title=Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English Translations of John Trevisa and of an Unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century.(nb...)|series=Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages|location=London|publisher=Longman & Co.,(nb...); Trübner|Trübner & Co.,(nb...)|year=a. 1387|year_published=1879|volume=VII|section=book VI|page=69|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-g9EAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA69|oclc=271081999|passage=He Gerebertus was þe firste þat took abacus of Sarsyns, and ȝaf rules þerynne, þat mowe unneþe be understonde of þe kunnyngeste men of þe craft, þe whiche craftes men beþ cleped abaciste. ''Marianus.'' Abacus is a table wiþ þhe whiche schappes be portrayed and i-peynt in powdre, and abacus is a craft of geometrie.|translation=He Gerebertus was the first who took the abacus of the Saracens and gave rules for it, which can be barely understood by the most learned men of the craft, whose craftsmen are called abacists. ''Marianus.'' The abacus is a table with which shapes are portrayed and painted in powder, and abacus is also a branch of geometry.|brackets=on|termlang=en
(quote-book)|chapter=Education of the Athens|title=The Modern Athens: A Dissection and Demonstration of Men and Things in the Scotch Capital|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Printed for Knight and Lacey,(nb...)|year=1825|page=269|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=D05gAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA269|oclc=12954342|passage=He set fondly and furiously to work upon Simpson|Thomas Simpson's (w), ... The smooth grassy sod answered all the purposes of the abacus, and the cows generously supplied him in a substitute for sand. Spreading and smoothing that substitute with his bear foot, he engraved upon it with his finger the mystic lines and letters; and, with book in hand, proceeded to establish the elementary principles of geometry, ...
A device used for performing arithmetical calculations; a table on which loose counters are placed, or an instrument with beads sliding on rods, or counters in grooves, with one row of beads or counters representing units, the next tens, etc. (defdate)
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(quote-book)
(quote-book) it was necessary to see the thing before counting it, like children who learn on abacuses, with balls sliding along rods: children learn to add and subtract by sliding stones.
The uppermost portion of the capital of a column immediately under the architrave, in some cases a flat oblong or square slab, in others more decorated. (defdate)
(quote-journal); printed by Nichols (printer)|John Nichols, printer to the Society;(nb...)|year=1795 June 11, 18, 25|year_published=1796|volume=XII|page=160|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=rMFeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP226|oclc=220073875|passage=The only mouldings uſed, both by the Saxon and Norman architects, were the ''torus'', the ''ſcotia'' or ''reverſed torus'', the ''cavetto'' or ''hollow moulding'', and a kind of ''chamfered faſcia'', which latter was generally uſed for ''impoſts'' or ''abacuſes'' to their capitals.
(quote-journal)|month=June|year=1829|volume=I, part I|issue=VI (New Series)|page=245|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=R5dTAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA3-PA5|oclc=4681193|passage=At Amiens, the square form of the abaci, and the volutes of the capitals, afford a decisive proof that the Norman fashion had not yet been superseded. On the other hand, at Salisbury, the abaci are mostly round, and where foliage is used in the capitals, their graceful and luxurious design clearly shews an advancement in that department of the art.
(RQ:Ruskin Stones of Venice)
(quote-book) abaci above the (w) capitals were only decorated on the east flank. Perhaps the decoration of the abacus was not regarded as important as the capital and although it is above the capital, its decoration was executed only when time constraints did not prevail.
(quote-book)|year=2005|page=76|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWCnUT0-5xwC&pg=PA76|isbn=978-0-7506-6124-9|passage=The abacus is moulded in three sections and has four main concave faces corresponding with the tapering volutes below and truncated by a short square face on the diagonal.
A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments for holding bottles, cups, or the like; a kind of buffet, cupboard, or sideboard. (defdate)
(quote-book); London: Gale and Fenner; York, Yorkshire: Thomas Wilson and Sons|year=1817|volume=I|page=4|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OiZeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP14|column=1|oclc=29809783|passage=ABACUS, among the ancients, was a kind of cupboard or buffet. (w), deſcribing the luxury into which the Romans degenerated after the conqueſt of Aſia, ſays they had their ''abaci'', beds, &c. plated over with gold.
(quote-book)|year=1875|section=§ 89 (Tables.—Tripods)|pages=446–447|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/lifeofgreeksroma00guhl/lifeofgreeksroma00guhlpage/447/mode/1up|oclc=79000433|passage=The plate and nicknacks, always found in elegant Roman houses, were displayed on small one or three legged tables (''trapezophoron''), the slabs of which (''abacus'', a word which, like trapezophoron, is sometimes used for the whole table) had raised edges round them: several richly ornamented specimens of such tables have been found at Pompeii. Fig. 446 shows a small abacus resting on three marble legs, which has been found in the house of the "Little Mosaic-Fountain" at Pompeii.
(l) (arithmetic calculation device, usually with beads on rods)
(syn)
abacus (upper portion of a column's capital)
(Q)
board, (l)
A painted ceiling or wall panel.
''(Late Latin)'' calculation in general