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Word: abacus
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Noun:
- A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard.
- 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.
- archaic A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.
- architecture The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave.
- obsolete A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.
Source: Wiktionary
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