Definitions for abacus

abacus ab·a·cus

Spelling: [ab-uh-kuh s, uh-bak
IPA: /ˈæb ə kəs, əˈbæk əs/

Abacus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in abacus (aabcsu).

Definitions for abacus

noun

  1. a device for making arithmetic calculations, consisting of a frame set with rods on which balls or beads are moved.
  2. Architecture. a slab forming the top of the capital of a column.

Origin of abacus

1350-1400; Middle English Latin: board, counting board, re-formed Greek ábax

Examples for abacus

The flowers on the four sides are to be made as large as the height of the abacus.

But abacus and similar deals were already sucking money out of Rhineland, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The steeper the slope of the bell, the thinner may be the abacus.

The abacus is the crowning member of the capital, as the capital is of the column.

The height of the abacus is one seventh of the height of the capital.

The abacus has a width equivalent to the thickness of the bottom of a column.

This, as pictured in the text, is the common Gerbert abacus.

Thus, Goldman found them a willing buyer for the junk piled into abacus.

abacus, a square tablet which crowns the capital of the column.

But evidently the projecting corners of the abacus at a, Fig.

Word Value for abacus
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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