Architectural term; flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column.
1 Yes, we can continue to force our computers into the overgrown - abacus mold.
2 Just think how nice it'll look next to your titanium and carbon-fiber abacus .
3 Above the spiral roll is a low abacus , oblong or square in plan.
4 I learned how to work the sextant, the compass, the slipstick, the abacus .
5 Not so different from using an abacus or playing the piano.
6 Martens picked up the abacus , and started flicking the beads back and forth.
7 He stared at the beads of the abacus , studying them intently.
8 The height of the abacus is one seventh of the height of the capital.
9 He solved this problem by changing the spectators into an abacus for his memory.
10 Kat taught her numbers using an abacus , and set her little problems to solve.
11 Besides a desk, he'll need an abacus , a wall slate, and a drawing board.
12 Shuzan is calculation based on the use of the abacus .
13 There is something about final-day league permutations that necessitates widespread mention of the abacus .
14 The clerk had one hand on a computer keypad, the other on an abacus .
15 We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus .
16 If we had no computers but an abacus , what would we know about fractals?
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