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calculate

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calculate \Cal"cu*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Calculater ; p. pr. & vb. n. Calculating .] [L, calculatus, p. p. of calculate, fr. calculus a pebble, a stone used in reckoning; hence, a reckoning, fr. calx, calcis, a stone used in gaming, limestone. See Calx ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive mathematics English) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process. 2 (context intransitive mathematics English) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon. 3 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: cipher , cypher , compute , work out , reckon , figure ] judge to be probable [syn: estimate , reckon , count on , figure , forecast ] keep an account of [syn: account ] predict in advance [syn: forecast ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a calculated gamble (= one in which you consider the risks very carefully ) ▪ He made a calculated gamble that an early election would return his party to power. deliberate/calculated/outright deceit COLLOCATIONS FROM ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "to compute, to estimate by mathematical means," from Latin calculatus , past participle of calculare "to reckon, compute," from calculus (see calculus ). Meaning "to plan, devise" is from 1650s. Replaced earlier calculen (mid-14c.), from Old French ...

Usage examples of calculate.

But the Acca has calculated that Monica only has another day or so to live, so I can probably stay nearby that long.

To Adar he gave a bow calculated to the station he had measured them to fit, and set the wire basket on the table.

When animals were subjected to injuries calculated to make the strongest impression uppon their sensibility, was not the response A RISE IN BLOOD-PRESSURE?

It is calculated that ever grown lion in South Africa kills for food, every year, between 200 and 300 harmless animals, and each one of which is as much entitled as the lion to the happiness of existence.

IN MANY CASES calculated to mislead the public, so far as they suggest that the animals in question were not under an anaesthetic.

This was a calculated decision to co-opt the Belgian elite who had led the revolt against the Austrians and avoid alienating the majority of the population by extending French anticlericalism to one of the most fervently pious Catholic populations in Europe.

The fact that Lady Appleton had dressed for her own comfort argued against any calculated effort to impress the yeomen and husbandmen of Gorebury.

Known as far and away the most promising orator among the younger men, like the dead Crassus Orator he affected the Asianic style, and was as gracefully calculated in his gestures as he was golden of voice, language, and rhetorical devices.

Staring at the stars, he calculated the precise astrometric parallax measurements by which to fly back to Serpentia.

The Russian astrophysicist Shklovsky has calculated that a type II supernovae 32 light-years from the sun could bath the earth with cosmic rays having an energy density 100 times that of the cosmic rays that now impinge upon the atmosphere.

But the rate of his progress was such that he pessimistically calculated that it would take him at least two years before he could preach with any degree of understanding in the Athabascan tongue.

HO caused him to calculate incorrect figures for the weight of hydrogen atoms relative to other elements.

He grunted as he began a backswing with the axe calculated to split the Colonel up from the groin to the breastbone, then gasped as a pain exploded behind his knee.

In this wise more than three hours had elapsed, the young Emir was himself again, and was calculating the average of the various rates of interest in every town in Syria, from Gaza to Aleppo, when Baroni returned, bearing in his hand an Egyptian vase.

When the universal jollity had reached its height, two Bayaderes, who belonged to the suite of the Maharajah of Sabathu, made their appearance, Indian beauties, whose voluptuous feminine charms were calculated to make the blood even of the spoilt European run warm.