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- noun Plural form of
abacus .
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Examples
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Somehow, these broadcasters, who have managed to make pictures fly through the air and into your living room for 70 years, are still relying on paper records and perhaps abacuses.
Craig Aaron: When Whinosaurs Attack! Craig Aaron 2012
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Calls for the modernization of the game were once more dismissed outright by the bigwigs in power, preferring abacuses to calculators, and overweight old men aka 'Linesmen' to goal-line technology.
Dan Bigmore: The State of the Game Dan Bigmore 2011
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Calls for the modernization of the game were once more dismissed outright by the bigwigs in power, preferring abacuses to calculators, and overweight old men aka 'Linesmen' to goal-line technology.
Dan Bigmore: The State of the Game Dan Bigmore 2011
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Somehow, these broadcasters, who have managed to make pictures fly through the air and into your living room for 70 years, are still relying on paper records and perhaps abacuses.
Craig Aaron: When Whinosaurs Attack! Craig Aaron 2012
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So to calm our nerves, we got out our abacuses and did some initial fooling around with projected popular vote.
First Thoughts on an Obama ‘Turnout Effect’ | Disinformation 2008
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The current Emperor dreams of space travel and has commissioned a team of mathematicians (called Computators) to wield their abacuses (Abacuses!) and make that dream a reality.
REVIEW: Chris Roberson's Celestial Empire Stories (Part 1) 2008
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The computational work of the input-output analysis (inversion of the matrix by an inferior pivot method, necessary because of that absence) was performed by thousands of people, for months using abacuses or turning the handles of primitive mechanical calculators.
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The computational work of the input-output analysis (inversion of the matrix by an inferior pivot method, necessary because of that absence) was performed by thousands of people, for months using abacuses or turning the handles of primitive mechanical calculators.
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Ombak Ampang Mall 301A, another browser's delight, is much more of a Southeast Asian enterprise, with colorful children's toys, vintage abacuses and vivid Sri Lankan textiles collected from founder Simon Gan 's extensive travels.
Kuala Lumpur Update Andrew Harper's Hideway Report 2010
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It had a good amount of stuff, and really good explanations, and hands-on things I now understand how abacuses work!
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