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/kˈælkjəlˌeɪtɪŋ məʃˈin/ Listen

adjective

Calculating adj.

Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

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.

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Etymology of 'Calculating machine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Calculating machine" Quotes from Famous Books

... what woman do you think could wish to live with you! I suppose Marian wanted a human being to live with, and not a calculating machine. You would drive any woman away. If you had feeling enough to have kicked him out of the house, and then beaten her black and blue for encouraging him, you would have been more of a man than you are: she would have loved you more. ...

— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw

... sense, or perceptive faculty, through the medium of self-expression on the part of the child. On the contrary, the very raison d'etre of the arithmetic lesson, as it is still given in many schools, is to destroy the arithmetical sense, and make the child an inefficient calculating machine, which, even when working, is too often inaccurate and clumsy, and which the slightest change of environment throws at once and ...

— What Is and What Might Be - A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular • Edmond Holmes

... blindly to the suggestions of his critics, (I do not say that suggestions from without may not be accepted with discrimination sometimes, to the benefit of the acceptor), blindly and implicitly to the suggestions of his critics, is much as if Babbage were to take my opinion and undo his calculating machine by it. Napoleon called poetry science creuse—which, although he was not scientific in poetry himself, is true enough. But anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not ...

— The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 • Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

... do. I still think people should be in love and not just mated because a calculating machine says ...

— Mother America • Sam McClatchie