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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated countable English) calculation; computation. 2 (context countable mathematics English) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules. 3 (context uncountable often definite '''the calculus''' ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES differential calculus COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE differential ▪ The package is designed to solve, through symbolic manipulation, problems in differential calculus . ▪ And his thought was very fruitful: fore-shadowing ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Calculus (from Latin calculus meaning ‘pebble’, plural calculī ) in its most general sense is any method or system of calculation . Calculus may refer to:

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Latin calculus "reckoning, account," originally "pebble used as a reckoning counter," diminutive of calx (genitive calcis ) "limestone" (see chalk (n.)). Modern mathematical sense is a shortening of differential calculus . Also used from 1732 ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calculus \Cal"cu*lus\, n.; pl. Calculi . [L, calculus. See Calculate , and Calcule .] (Med.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary ...

Usage examples of calculus.

I could make my science useful, because the answers given by the numerical figures are often so obscure that I have felt discouraged, and I very seldom tried to make any use of my calculus.

Little in mathematics beyond the elementary level of calculus of variations, and nothing at all about Banach algebra or Riemannian manifolds.

Following these directions, other bees would find the food, fill up on it, and aim unerringly back to the hive, a calculation that for a human would require a stop watch, a compass and vector calculus.

In turn you must learn arithmetic, Euclidian geometry, high school algebra, differential and integral calculus, ordinary and partial differential equations, vector calculus, certain special functions of mathematical physics.

Inoshiro opened vis mouth and spewed out some random tags of propositional calculus.

Calculus racked him: Leaden before, his eyes grew dross of lead: Tussis attacked him.

On the table were an open three-ring binder, a couple of ballpoints, and a book entitled Advanced Calculus.

Queen Victoria had ever called an urgent meeting of her counsellors, and ordered them to invent the equivalent of radio and television, it is unlikely that any of them would have imagined the path to lead through the experiments of Ampere, Biot, Oersted and Faraday, four equations of vector calculus, and the judgement to preserve the displacement current in a vacuum.

Even the great German mathematician Gottfried von Leibniz, with whom Newton had a long, bitter fight over priority for the invention of the calculus, thought his contributions to mathematics equal to all the accumulated work that had preceded him.

What was there about these surfaces that made the journey seem descendent and led him to believe he was breathing sheerest calculus?

If Queen Victoria had ever called an urgent meeting of her counsellors, and ordered them to invent the equivalent of radio and television, it is unlikely that any of them would have imagined the path to lead through the experiments of Ampere, Biot, Oersted and Faraday, four equations of vector calculus, and the judgement to preserve the displacement current in a vacuum.

Before leaving for work the next morning, he had invented an entire new branch of mathematics called the calculus of variations, used it to solve the brachistochrone problem and sent off the solution, which was published, at Newton’s request, anonymously.

Good-bye, calculuses aeons advanced beyond the spinor calculus of Dirac.

Being only about to finish high school his training had gone no farther than tensor calculus, statistical mechanics, simple transfinities, generalized geometries of six dimensions, and, on the practical side, analysis for electronics, primary cybernetics and robotics, and basic design of analog computers.

Not to mention analytic geometry, calculus, and computer programming, I thought.