NAPIER’S BONES as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a set of graduated rods formerly used to do multiplication and division by a method invented by John Napier
   Synonym(s)
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   Hypernyms(s) Napier’s bones is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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