Word "ABACUS" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave

Crossword Clues for ABACUS

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Counting frame Mirror Classic 24 Apr 2024
Simple counting frame (6) Puzzler 18 Apr 2024
Calculator used Zambian cruise (6)
Calculator used regularly during Zambian cruise (6)
Beaded counting frame (6)
Grab a custard tart. There's a reckoner in there (6)
A taxi back to America, count on it (6)
A taxi back to America you can count on (6)
Ancient counting frame (6)
Strings of beads on the counter (6)
Early counting device (6)
Chinese calculating frame
You can count on a taxi returning with us
Calculating device first used more than 4000 years ago (6)
You can count on getting a cab in America!
Device for measuring cost of a scuba accident (6)
You can count on it fixing a US cab (6)
Counting device consisting of a frame with beads (6)
Answer found by graduates possessing copper counting device (6)
Whittled down slab, a custom-made counter (6)
Counting device with beads USA Today 15 Feb 2024
Ancient calculator Premier Sunday 11 Feb 2024
Calculator as a cub used Mirror Cryptic 01 Feb 2024
Counting frame Mirror Quick 01 Feb 2024
Counter about air-conditioning in transport (6)
Uber's first taxi to turn up in while, one reckons (6)
Starts abridging accounts using an old computer (6)
Early manual calculator Puzzler Backwords 02 Jan 2024
Early counter Commuter 19 Dec 2023
Old calculator that may make a graduate swear endlessly The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Dec 2023
Counting frame The Times Concise 13 Dec 2023
Counter full of beads?
A lot of support in Oz – you can count on it The Guardian Cryptic 07 Dec 2023
Counting device Bill found in a passenger vehicle (6)
Clicking calculator
Area with carbon in a vehicle’s frame
Primitive counting device Puzzler Backwords 10 Nov 2023
A heathen god church discarded? You could count on that The Times Cryptic 01 Nov 2023
Aircon in a double-decker? You can count on it The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Jul 2023
Simple calculator whose name may derive from a Hebrew word meaning 'dust' The Times Specialist Sunday 09 Jul 2023
Calculator in a taxi returned by you and me The Guardian Cryptic 26 Jun 2023
Pre-digital computer The Guardian Quick 03 Jun 2023
Low-tech calculator LA Times Daily 15 May 2023
Count on it! Universal 02 May 2023
Early adding machine Wall Street Journal 01 Mar 2023
Counting tool with beads USA Today 25 Feb 2023
Old computer The Guardian Quick 26 Nov 2022
Early calculator Thomas Joseph 26 Oct 2022
Australia gets most of support in summer? The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Sep 2022
A blackleg upset nursing union? You can count on it!
Old counter? The Telegraph Quick 25 Sep 2022
You can count on it Eugene Sheffer 05 Sep 2022
Old counter Thomas Joseph 01 Jul 2022
Counting frame The Times Concise 28 Jun 2022
A master of wine avoiding church counter The Guardian Cryptic 15 Jun 2022
Counting-frame Irish Times Simplex 07 Jun 2022
Catch a cold in a public vehicle — you can count on it! The Guardian Cryptic 04 May 2022
Catch a cold in a public vehicle — you can count on it!
Sum thing? The Washington Post Sunday 01 May 2022
You can't say it doesn't count New York Times 20 Mar 2022
Calculator with beads Universal 09 Mar 2022
Very early calculator Irish Times Simplex 01 Mar 2022
Top level coach keeps account with an old-fashioned calculator
Counter move shortly in a transport
Early counting-frame Irish Times Simplex 02 Dec 2021
Calculator one needs a hand to make work?
Chinese number cruncher The Telegraph Quick 03 Nov 2021
What you can count on Universal 30 Oct 2021
Presumably, you can count on this key alternative lead to lead crystal found in public transport Irish Times Crosaire 26 Oct 2021
Cooling system fitted in a vehicle for summer, once The Telegraph Toughie 29 Sep 2021
A graduate getting to use profanity briefly? You can count on it! Irish Times Crosaire 21 Sep 2021
Book AC in Australia in summer, perhaps 
Very early calculator Irish Times Simplex 17 Aug 2021
We get a taxi back in front of counter, say
A graduate getting to use profanity briefly? You can count on it! Irish Times Crosaire 06 Jul 2021
Where an adder slides to and fro? The Sun Two Speed 19 Jun 2021
Something you can always count on New York Times 14 Jun 2021
Computing device for autobasic programming — does not involve zero, one, and two, basically
Cranmer ___ (calculation tool) USA Today 06 Apr 2021
Counting frame The Times Concise 03 Apr 2021
You can count on it Wall Street Journal 16 Mar 2021
Early calculator The Sun Two Speed 09 Mar 2021
Taxi back in Australia: count on that The Sun Two Speed 09 Mar 2021
Early counting-frame Irish Times Simplex 23 Feb 2021
Ancient adding machine Newsday 03 Feb 2021
Counter a graduate's short, cross word
The ancients were counting on this The Sun Two Speed 18 Jan 2021
A banking system enshrining universal approach to counting The Telegraph Toughie 14 Jan 2021
Very early calculator Irish Times Simplex 05 Jan 2021
Early summer, one could count on it The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Nov 2020
Count on this posh taxi reversing when outside The Sun Two Speed 24 Oct 2020
A church abandoning God for something they can count on
Cooling system in a vehicle that's helpful for summer?
Old calculator that may make a graduate swear endlessly
Count on this as Cuba reforms The Sun Two Speed 06 Sep 2020
Simple adding device New York Times 18 Aug 2020
Grab a customer pinching calculator
A taxi returns with American computer
. Support contract in Australia is something to count on
Bead counter? Universal 12 Jul 2020
Count on this as Cuba fragments The Sun Two Speed 02 Jun 2020
Upwardly mobile head of Uber takes taxi in South Africa? You can count on it
Upwardly mobile head of Uber takes taxi in South Africa? You can count on it
Calculating frame The Times Concise 21 Mar 2020
Early form of computer The Guardian Speedy 01 Mar 2020
Old counter Thomas Joseph 21 Dec 2019
Earliest characters, you and I adopting a primitive calculator
A graduate getting to use profanity briefly? You can count on it! Irish Times Crosaire 12 Nov 2019
Has an influence on the count, as what's monitored is not in sodium carbonate Irish Times Crosaire 29 Oct 2019
A taxi brought over American? One may count on it
Pop group said to blaspheme immaturely? You can count on it The Telegraph Toughie 21 May 2019
You can count on it Eugene Sheffer 22 Apr 2019
Frame + beads + wires Newsday 06 Apr 2019
Counting device The Telegraph Quick 05 Apr 2019
A West Indian cricketer's child is dismissed at counter
Retro counter The New Yorker 25 Mar 2019
Counter sailor with a short profanity The Telegraph Toughie 14 Mar 2019
Count on this support mostly in Australia The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Feb 2019
Counter, basic stuff, American, that has engaged one
Primarily adjusting beads, apparatus Chinese use still?
Summer in Mesopotamia
A coach fitted with air conditioning and a computer
Manual calculator USA Today 24 Nov 2018
Precalculator calculator New York Times 21 Oct 2018
Counter on which one may tell one's beads?
Arithmetic class device Wall Street Journal 21 Jul 2018
Has an influence on the count as what's monitored is not in sodium carbonate Irish Times Crosaire 15 Jun 2018
Grab a custard pie kept in the counter
Has an influence on The Count, by all accounts Irish Times Crosaire 08 May 2018
Device for calculating area covered initially in a vehicle
Counting-frame Irish Times Simplex 09 Apr 2018
An old calculator can make a graduate swear endlessly The Sun Two Speed 30 Mar 2018
Counting frame The Sun Two Speed 30 Mar 2018
Computer ancestor Newsday 15 Mar 2018
Device for calculating area covered initially in a vehicle
Calculator with beads Jonesin 27 Feb 2018
Adder is a snake laying egg on course frequently
You can count on it ruining USA, holding back transport
Manual calculator
Precalculator calculator
Arithmetic class device
It would calculate USA's ruin, being infiltrated by born again Christian leaders
Tot with this baby face? Busy wiping walls
Count on this as Cuba undergoes reform
Clicking counter Wall Street Journal 30 Sep 2017
An American possessing endless support you can count on?
Count on this as Cuba undergoes reform
A church removed from god, you can count on it!
A church removed from god, you can count on it! The Times Cryptic 11 Jul 2017
You can count on it? Eugene Sheffer 10 Jun 2017
Check out presence at wine-drinkers' heaven under a counter The Telegraph Toughie 26 May 2017
Old calculator a conductor originally used in a double-decker? The Times Cryptic 20 Mar 2017
Classical calculator The Washington Post 16 Feb 2017
Digital calculator? The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Nov 2016
For summers past, this taxi's turned up in Australia
Ancient calculating tool Newsday 04 Oct 2016
Calculator The Telegraph Quick 24 Aug 2016
Early calculator Thomas Joseph 23 Aug 2016
Bead-based calculator The Washington Post 08 Aug 2016
Early calculator Irish Times Simplex 14 Jan 2016
Manual calculator The Telegraph Quick 16 Dec 2015
Old calculator Eugene Sheffer 07 Dec 2015
American coach keeps bill for calculator
By all accounts, perhaps a scuba trick Irish Times Crosaire 09 Nov 2015
Primitive calculator Wall Street Journal 20 Oct 2015
Copper in a station endlessly? You could count on this once
You can count on it New York Times 03 Sep 2015
Erstwhile calculator Eugene Sheffer 01 Sep 2015
Sailor given bill, plus 40 per cent for using calculator The Telegraph Toughie 01 Jul 2015
Copper's after a degree: you can count on it!
Calculator that doesn't shut off New York Times 07 Jun 2015
Calculator of a sort Universal 29 Apr 2015
A support mostly useless — not something we now count on The Times Cryptic 16 Apr 2015
Adding device of old Universal 13 Apr 2015
Calculator with beads Newsday 12 Jan 2015
Calculator with beads
Calculator of a sort
Primitive calculator
Calculator that doesn't shut off
You can count on it
Adding device of old
You can count on it being at the top of a column
Habeas corpus served with no- hopers round the counter
UCAS in mix-up over exam results in summer
Calculator of old
Instrument made from bamboo
Beaded calculator
Low-tech calculator
Low-tech calculator
Basic adding machine
Old calculator
Ancestor of a calculator
You can count on it
American after a taxi back? You can count on it!
You can always count on this
Gadget you can count on?
Beaded device
Ancient computer
Calculator precursor
Beaded counter
Adding device
Gadget you can count on?
Ancient adder
Ancient adder
Ancestor of the adding machine
Chinese calculator
You can count on it
Ancient calculator
Beaded calculator
Ancient calculator
Device you can count on
Beaded calculator
You can count on it
Counter-intuitive calculator?
You can always count on this
Primitive calculator
Beaded counter
Eastern summer
Eastern summer
Calculator of a kind
Calculator that doesn't need batteries
Chinese calculator
Calculator that has no on-off switch
Adding device
Beaded device
Column slab
Count on it
Low-tech calculator
Early calculator
Something you can still count on
Early summer?
Low-tech counting device
Early calculator
Early calculator
You can count on it
Problem solver?
You can count on it
Early calculator
Something you can count on
Early computer
Calculator's ancestor
Ancient calculator
Item with beads
Calculator precursor
Ancient calculator
Basic computer
Item with beads
Arithmetic device
Calculator of a sort
Early calculator
Calculator of a kind
Calculator
Counting aid
Old store counter
Kind of calculator
Counting board
Manual calculator
Soroban
Crude calculator
Calculating device
Earliest computer
Computer of a sort
Calculator
Non-electronic calculator
Calculator's cousin
Eastern computer
Arithmetic device
Type of calculator
Antiquity's computer.
Nonelectronic computer.
Simple computer.
Computer, old style.
Device for calculating.
Device for doing arithmetic.
Calculating device.
Rudimentary calculator.
Ancestor of the comptometer.
Reckoner.
Oriental calculator.
Math toy for kids
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