Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

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Examples

  • In calculations, the abacist knew he had to respect untouched columns just as he had to respect ones in which the beads were moved.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • In calculations, the abacist knew he had to respect untouched columns just as he had to respect ones in which the beads were moved.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • In calculations, the abacist knew he had to respect untouched columns just as he had to respect ones in which the beads were moved.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • One compartment holds a laptop compiler, whereas I pharyngeal taking my analog abacist life after death stag party me near enough to three months ago.

    D*I*Y Planner - Comments 2010

  • The abacus was also a way for the skeptical abacist to check the calculator’s result, just in case he didn’t believe it.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • The abacus was also a way for the skeptical abacist to check the calculator’s result, just in case he didn’t believe it.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • The abacus was also a way for the skeptical abacist to check the calculator’s result, just in case he didn’t believe it.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • “The faceted world was like a cosmic abacist, tallying as it marched the errors of the infinite.

    The Metal Monster 2004

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