さんばん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of さんばん – see the following entry.

【算盤】 [noun] [from 1688] (mathematics) a kind of grid used in 和算 (wasan, “traditional Japanese mathematics”) to calculate higher-order functions [noun] [from 1717] (mathematics) an abacus

(This term, さんばん, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)