Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Calculating   /kˈælkjəlˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Calculate  v. i.  (past & past part. calculater; pres. part. calculating)  
1.
To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute. "A calencar exacity calculated than any othe."
2.
To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity. "A cunning man did calculate my birth."
3.
To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end; as, to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people. "(Religion) is... calculated for our benefit."
4.
To plan; to expect; to think. (Local, U. S.)
Synonyms: To compute; reckon; count; estimate; rate. To Calculate, Compute. Reckon, Count. These words indicate the means by which we arrive at a given result in regard to quantity. We calculate with a view to obtain a certain point of knowledge; as, to calculate an eclipse. We compute by combining given numbers, in order to learn the grand result. We reckon and count in carrying out the details of a computation. These words are also used in a secondary and figurative sense. "Calculate is rather a conjection from what is, as to what may be; computation is a rational estimate of what has been, from what is; reckoning is a conclusive conviction, a pleasing assurance that a thing will happen; counting indicates an expectation. We calculate on a gain; we compute any loss sustained, or the amount of any mischief done; we reckon on a promised pleasure; we count the hours and minutes until the time of enjoyment arrives"


Calculate  v. i.  To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to estimate; to compute. "The strong passions, whether good or bad, never calculate."


adjective
Calculating  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.
2.
Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition.
Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.


noun
Calculating  n.  The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Calculating" Quotes from Famous Books



... he was, in money affairs, what I have described him in a former illustration—generous, profuse, wildly careless, but fully persuaded that he was rather calculating and prudent. I happened to say to Ada, in his presence, half jestingly, half seriously, about the time of his going to Mr. Kenge's, that he needed to have Fortunatus' purse, he made so light of money, which he answered in this way, "My jewel of a dear cousin, you hear this ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens
... was home, so that he could leave. It wouldn't matter then, he tried to believe, what he did. He even dwelt upon the desire of Mason's return to the extent of calculating, with his eyes upon the fancy calendar on the wall opposite, the exact time of his absence. Ten days—there was no hope of release for another month, at least, and Ford sighed unconsciously when he ...
— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower
... had been a gentleman by birth, breeding, and nature. If she inherited from her mother an ambitious, calculating spirit, she also inherited from her father refinement, and tone, and a certain fineness character, that showed itself chiefly in unorthodox ways, of for the simple reason that her life and conditions were entirely removed from a ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page
... need of nice calculating, and Tom eyed the shore and the tree and the machine with the appraising glance of a wrestler eyeing his opponent. He broke several branches from the tree, laying them so as to form a kind of springy, leafy mound close to the brink. Then standing knee-deep he wiggled the wheel's rim very cautiously ...
— Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... any capital?", asked the Colonel, in the tone of a man who is given to calculating carefully ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner


More quotes...


Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com