Calculate
['kælkjʊleɪt] or ['kælkjulet]
Definition
(verb.) make a mathematical calculation or computation.
(verb.) judge to be probable.
(verb.) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.
Editor: Vince--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To plan; to expect; to think.
(v. i.) To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to estimate; to compute.
Typed by Cedric
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Compute, reckon, estimate, count, rate, cast.[2]. Adjust, adapt, fit.
v. n. Tell, estimate, make a calculation, make a computation, cast accounts.
Typist: Shirley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Estimate, consider, weigh, number, count, apportion, proportion, investigate,reckon, rate, compute
ANT:Guess, conjecture, hit, chance, risk, stake, miscalculate
Checker: Wilmer
Definition
v.t. to count or reckon: to think out: to adapt fit (only passive with for): (U.S.) to think purpose.—v.i. to make a calculation: to estimate.—adjs. Cal′culable; Cal′culating given to forethought deliberately selfish and scheming.—n. Calculā′tion the art or process of calculating: estimate: forecast.—adj. Cal′culātive relating to calculation.—n. Cal′culātor one who calculates.
Typed by Jed
Examples
- By means of an apparatus called the siren, it is possible to calculate the number of vibrations producing any given musical note, such, for example, as middle C on the piano. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- At the place where I planned to do this, I was (as nearly as I could calculate it) some three days distant, journeying on foot, from the sacred city. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- So many wheels to count and consider and calculate! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To study this he made an instrument called the dynamometer, which enabled him to calculate the resistance of friction to which carriages would be exposed on railways. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The effects of which movement it is impossible to calculate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She would not calculate, she would not compare. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I thought your good nature might--' 'I thought you knew,' she interrupted, with a smile, 'that my good nature is not to be calculated upon? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Is it because we are calculated to walk? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A calculated, cast up, balanced, and proved house. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Her constitution is both sound and elastic;--better calculated to endure variations of climate than many more robust. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His countenance was therefore fully displayed, and its expression was calculated to impress a degree of awe, if not of fear, upon strangers. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Baldwin, a construction engineer, living in the United States, began to work on calculating machines in 1870. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She was aware of Mademoiselle standing near, like a little French beetle, observant and calculating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Here was a new stunner--I had been calculating on four or five thousand. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- No practical business man would erect a turbine or paddle wheel without calculating in advance the value of his water power. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He commenced to construct an automatic calculating machine, which he called a difference engine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I am calculating on the exposure. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was early in the seventeenth century that Napier, a native of Naples, invented the first actual mechanical means of calculating. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Thus the activities of the astronomer vary with the stars at which he gazes or about which he calculates. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Calculates to do the best for 'em I can. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Checker: Patty