calculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælkjʊleɪt/
ipa: /ˈkælkjəleɪt/
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Etymology: Borrowed from Latin calculātus, perfect passive participle of calculō (“to reckon, compute, calculate”, originally by means of pebbles) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from calculus (“a pebble”), further from calx (“limestone”, calc- in compounds) + -ulus (forms diminutives).
Senses: examples: text: Calculate the square root of 3 to 10 decimal places.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
examples: text: I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal’lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To plan; to expect; to think.
examples: text: to calculate or cast one’s nativity
text: A cunning man did calculate my birth.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people
text: [Religion] is […] calculated for our benefit.
ref: 1671, John Tillotson, “Sermon IV. The Advantages of Religion to Particular Persons. Psalm XIX. 11.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], London: […] B. Aylmer, […]; [a]nd W. Rogers, […], published 1696, →OCLC:
glosses: To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
Synonyms: sense: determine value of or solution to
word: compute
sense: determine value of or solution to
english: old
translation: old
word: reckon
sense: determine value of or solution to
word: work out
sense: determine values or solutions
word: compute
sense: determine values or solutions
english: old
translation: old
word: reckon
word: calculate
word: cipher
word: supputate
word: suppute
Hyponyms: word: summate
word: subtract
word: multiply
word: divide
Derived terms: backcalculate
calculant
calculatable
calculated
calculate out
calculating
calculative
calculatory
miscalculate
outcalculate
overcalculate
precalculate
recalculate
retrocalculate
uncalculatable
undercalculate
Related terms: calculation
calculus
calculator
incalculable