Abacus (disambiguation)
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An abacus is a counting frame.
Abacus may also refer to:
- Abacus (architecture), a flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column
- Abacus school, a type of Renaissance-era Italian trade school
- Logical abacus, an early mechanical digital computer
- Mental abacus, a system involving visualization of an abacus to carry out arithmetical calculations
- Abacus Harmonicus, an ancient diagram showing the structure and placement of the keys of a particular musical instrument
- Operation Abacus, the Canadian military operation to restore vital services if the year 2000 caused disruption
Companies and brands
- Abacus Federal Savings Bank, an overseas Chinese bank in the United States
- Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, 2016 documentary about the bank, which was the only financial institution to face criminal charges following the subprime mortgage crisis
- Abacus Data, a Canadian polling firm
- Abacus 5, an action sports manufacturing and distribution company headquartered in Shanghai
- ABACUS, an Enterprise Architecture (EA) mapping software tool by Avolution
- Abacus, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
- Abacus Recordings, a defunct imprint of Century Media Records
- Abacus Jasper's Management Group, owned by chef Kent Rathbun
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