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calculus
  1. (dated, countable) Calculation; computation.
  2. (mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
  3. (uncountable, often definite, the calculus) Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.
  4. (medicine) A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
  5. (uncountable, dentistry) Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
  6. (countable) A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “His work is almost exclusively on calculus, in particular differential equations and functions of a real variable.”
      “The location of calculus on the teeth may have interesting implications in assessing the lifestyle of the individual.”
      “As the pain was typical of renal colic, Kevin was suspected of having a renal calculus.”
calculator
  1. A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations.
  2. (dated) A person who performs mathematical calculation
  3. A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
  4. (obsolete) A set of mathematical tables.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I need to find my calculator to help me solve this complex equation.”
      “I need to borrow your calculator to finish these complex equations.”
      “The program flags possible tax deductions and includes a flexible spending calculator.”
calculation
  1. (mathematics) The act or process of calculating.
  2. (mathematics) The result of calculating.
  3. (countable) Reckoning, estimate.
  4. (countable) An expectation based on circumstances.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “It requires a complex calculation to determine the optimum nozzle size for any given set of conditions.”
      “Using the same analysis, Mr. Jarrell arrived at a calculation of a total loss of $87,735.06.”
      “The overall calculation of risk may include more than one type of screening test plus the woman's age.”
calculandum
  1. (formal, rare) An equation, ratio, or other quantitative problem designated for calculation; “that which is to be calculated”.
calculifrage
  1. (surgery) An instrument inserted into the bladder in order to break up calculi
calculability
  1. The condition of being calculable
  2. Examples:
    1. “The numbers of tortured, deported, and murdered people embody not the calculability, but rather the incomprehensibility, of genocide.”
      “The market naturally puts limits on the size of a firm or company because there are limits of calculability in a market.”
      “In his description of the conditions of maximum formal rationality of capital accounting, he often talks of complete calculability.”
calculatedness
  1. The quality of being calculated.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “One curious thing about her is that her evident calculatedness, her shark-like remorselessness and her aloofness has never dented her immense popularity.”
      “But that's a different sense of calculatedness than the idea that she holds out in order to dictate what the court says, which I didn't see at all.”
calculableness
  1. The quality of being calculable.
calculabilities
  1. plural of calculability
calculifrages
  1. plural of calculifrage
calculanda
  1. plural of calculandum
calculations
  1. plural of calculation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The performance in protein design calculations was also evaluated qualitatively.”
      “Patients with acalculia are unable to perform mathematical calculations, although some other numerical processing may still be available to them.”
      “The active site of CnCYP51 was well characterized by multiple-copy simultaneous-search calculations.”
calculators
  1. plural of calculator
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The arithmetic of gossip usually makes two and two equal five, but this time, the whisperers seem to be using calculators instead of fingers.”
      “Using hand-operated desk calculators, approximately 120 man-days were required to obtain a solution.”
      “Mechanical calculators, unable to guess, plod through repeated subtractions.”
calculi
  1. plural of calculus
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A cystotomy is then performed to remove all possible calculi, followed by routine closure of the bladder.”
      “Intravenous pyelography has greater sensitivity and specificity for the detection of renal calculi.”
      “I introduce a general method, the amphibologization method, to generate amphibologies in pre-existent logical calculi.”
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