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counting rods

counting rods is the plural of counting rod.

Meaning of counting rod

Noun

counting rod (plural counting rods)

  1. One of a set of small bars, used by mathematicians in some Asian countries, placed either horizontally or vertically to represent any number and any fraction.
    • In recent archaeological excavations a number of ancient counting-rods have been unearthed. More than 30 rods were found in August 1971 in Qianyang County of Shaanxi Province.[1983, Rongzhao Mei, “The Decimal Place-Value Numeration and the Rod and Bead Arithmetics”, in 中国古代科技成就 [Ancient China's Technology and Science] (China Knowledge Series), Beijing: Foreign Languages...

Questions about counting rods

What is counting rods the plural of?
Counting rods is the plural of counting rod.

Words near counting rods in the dictionary

  1. counting one's lucky stars
  2. counting out
  3. counting rhyme
  4. counting rhymes
  5. counting rod
  6. counting rods
  7. counting room
  8. counting rooms
  9. counting sheep
  10. counting sort
  11. counting sorts

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