In architecture, an abacus (from the Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax), 'slab'; or French abaque, tailloir; pl.: abacuses or abaci) is a flat slab forming the...
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the impost mouldings. Capital (architecture) Abacus (architecture) Pulvino Toman, Rolf, ed. (2010). Gothic Architecture, Sculpture, Painting. Potsdam:...
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Renaissance architecture and Neoclassical architecture. The Doric capital is the simplest of the five Classical orders: it consists of the abacus above an...
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Look up abacus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An abacus is a counting frame. Abacus may also refer to: Abacus (architecture), a flat slab forming...
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Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and...
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Classical order (redirect from Orders of architecture)
or circular cushion like stone, and the abacus is a square slab of stone. Above the capital is a square abacus connecting the capital to the entablature...
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Suanpan (redirect from Abacus chinese)
spelled suan pan or souanpan) is an abacus of Chinese origin, earliest first known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BCE during...
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Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries. The style eventually developed...
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required to carry the arch, the springing of which was much wider than the abacus of the column. On eastern columns the eagle, the lion and the lamb are occasionally...
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page is a glossary of architecture. Contents Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z See also Notes References Abacus A flat slab forming the...
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Goldman Sachs (redirect from Abacus 2007-AC1)
charged Goldman with misleading investors with was called Abacus 2007-AC1. Unlike many of the Abacus securities, 2007-AC1 did not have Goldman Sachs as a short...
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architecture description languages catered for at the enterprise level. Examples include ArchiMate (now a standard of The Open Group), DEMO, ABACUS (developed...
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Sanghamitra, Basu (January 2011). "A Search for Post-Modernism in Indian Architecture". Abacus. Lemoy, Christian (2011). Across the Pacific: From Ancient Asia...
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can be the ornament in the middle of each concave face of a Corinthian abacus. Finally, it can be a form of anthemion, a Greek floral ornament. Ancient...
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John the Evangelist's church English Romanesque waterleaf capital Abacus (architecture) Branchwork Pulvino Rais-de-cœur may incorporate waterleaves. The...
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are four life-sized lions set back to back on a drum-shaped abacus. The side of the abacus is adorned with wheels in relief, and interspersing them, four...
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(1978), 800 Years of Finnish Architecture, London: David & Charles. Salokorpi, Asko, ed. (1982), Writings on Architecture - Abacus Yearbook 3, Helsinki: Museum...
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Column (redirect from Base (architecture))
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure...
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The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is the most used framework for enterprise architecture as of 2020 that provides an approach for designing...
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mounted on a circular abacus and the abacus is mounted on a lotus. The wheel of the law, Dharmachakra, is in the center of the abacus. The wheel has 24 spokes...
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Pillars of Ashoka (category Buddhist architecture)
square abacus. Next would follow the Sankissa elephant and the Rampurva bull, also not yet benefiting from Mauryan polish, and using a Hellenistic abacus of...
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English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century. The style was most prominently used in the construction...
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Corinthian order (redirect from Corinthian (architecture))
be extravagantly drilled and undercut, naturalistic and spiky. The flat abacus at the top of the capital has a concave curve on each face, and usually...
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circular shaft, all surmounted by a continuous abacus. The semi-circular arch which rises from the abacus has the same serried planes and circular mouldings...
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Abacus Group is a ASX 200 public listed company that specialises in investing in Australian Real estate investment trusts with an investment portfolio...
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have introduced to the Corinthian the flower (or "rosette") touching the abacus in the centre of each face. Unlike a Greek temple, it had at least two windows...
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ISBN 0-394-51812-8. Michell, John. City of Revelation. Abacus, 1972. ISBN 0-349-12320-9. Schloeder, Steven J., Architecture in Communion: Implementing the Second Vatican...
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Abacus Data Systems, doing business as Caret or CARET (formerly AbacusNext), is an American software and private cloud services provider headquartered...
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Frieze (redirect from Frieze (architecture))
by small rosette flowers, 3rd BCE Rampurva bull capital, detail of the abacus, with two "flame palmettes" framing a lotus surrounded by small rosette...
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the abacus as it is and proceed to instruction n. In order to keep all numbers positive and mimic a human operator computing on a real world abacus, the...
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