(n.) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.
(n.) A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.
(n.) The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.
(n.) A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.
(n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Experiment 3, intermediate and upper-rank abacus experts performed a similar task to Experiment 1 under two instruction conditions.
(2) The results revealed that in the mental calculation condition, abacus experts showed a non-significant tendency towards greater interference in the left hand whereas the controls showed no hand difference.
(3) Instead it came to a knife-fight armed only with an abacus .
(4) The trypsin sensitivity expressed according to this index allowed the establishment of an abacus wherein several zones, A, B, C and D, define cell adhesion behaviour on different biomaterials.
(5) Paulson is alleged to have been allowed to stuff Abacus with mortgages doomed to default.
(6) All subjects had equivalent abacus performance ratings.
(7) Within nine months, more than 99% of the mortgages referenced by Abacus were in default, leaving Royal Bank of Scotland's Dutch subsidiary, ABN Amro, with an $840m bill as it had insured the derivative against failure.
(8) A task-demand variable was defined as a conjoint of mental arithmetic (3 min) and abacus arithmetic (30 min).
(9) In 2010, the firm was fined $550m by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US, and £17.5m by UK's Financial Services Authority over the Abacus sub-prime mortgage product and the activities of Fabrice Tourre, a London-based employee.
(10) In addition to offering simulation exercises for teaching purposes, this abacus provides the means for studying the instantaneous urodynamic situation (correspondences between cycle time points, symptoms, and effects of treatments) and determining the effect of various medicosocial events on the course of the bladder and sphincter dysfunction.
(11) Loss of function mutations in the abacus A (abaA) regulatory locus result in formation of aberrant conidiophores that fail to produce conidia.
(12) These data suggest that (1) learning experiences can affect the pattern of cerebral specialization through the change of approaches to perform cognitive tasks, and (2) the right hemisphere engages in mental calculation for the abacus experts whereas the left hemisphere contributes to mental calculation in ordinary people having no experience of abacus learning.
(13) Conidiophore morphogenesis requires regulatory interactions between the products of the stuA, bristle (brlA), and abacus (abaA) genes.
(14) The SEC's case against Goldman centres on a 2007 mortgage derivatives deal named Abacus, struck by Fabrice Tourre, a banker now based in London.
(15) In tissues treated directly with OsO4-pyroantimonate, antimonate reaction product was found chiefly in abacus bodies and secretory granules of the Golgi region and in secretory granules in the distal pole of the cell.
(16) Temperature shift experiments with an abaA14ts strain demonstrated that abaA+ function induced phialide formation by the aberrant abacus cells and was continuously required for maintenance of phialide function.
(17) All nutrient data were converted to bead units which were summed on an abacus until the meal requirements were met.
(18) The authors hope this abacus will be an attractive aide to the understanding of the complex function of the distal urinary tract.
(19) Only noise exposure tended to influence the performance of male students in abacus arithmetic.
(20) The results revealed that in the mental calculation condition, abacus experts showed greater interference effects on left hand tapping, whereas control subjects showed greater interference effects on right hand tapping (as compared to left hand).
Coussinet
Definition:
(n.) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
(n.) That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2) Endothelial cells present no contractile filaments but their nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm may protude in vascular lumen, constituting a "coussinet-like" structure.