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Definition or meaning of the English word Napier's rods
A set of rods; made of bone or other material; each divided into nine spaces; and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier; the inventor of logarithms; for facilitating the operations of multiplicati ().