0 a frame with small balls which you slide along wires, used for counting and calculating. -- abakus
Only one out of three had even heard of an abacus.
The police national computer will be a mere abacus compared with the computer required to administer the national identity card scheme.
I think that somebody has run away with the abacus as the scheme will clearly cost considerably more.
In this interesting context, he suggested that abacus man had no heart, compassion or feeling.
I have only a simple abacus; how can it be so?
He is particularly rewarded if he foresees it and produces, say, a pocket calculator in place of an abacus; or even, these days, produces a pocket computer.
I have not used a slide rule, calculator or abacus to do the calculation, although before the end of the debate we may need an abacus.
An inverted kalasha adorns the top, which also has a corbelled abacus.
