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Calculus   /kˈælkjələs/   Listen
Calculus

noun
(pl. calculi)
1.
A hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body.  Synonym: concretion.
2.
An incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums.  Synonyms: tartar, tophus.
3.
The branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions.  Synonym: infinitesimal calculus.



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"Calculus" Quotes from Famous Books



... will not be kept alive for long by forcing young men with perhaps a taste for science or the integral calculus to apply themselves to the study of Aristotle or Sophocles. The real hope for the humanities in the future lies in the teaching of such men as Butcher, Verrall, Gilbert Murray, Dill, Bevan, Livingstone, Zimmern, and, it may fortunately be said, many others, who can make the literature ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring

... be necessary to sacrifice math entirely. You can elect analytics and calculus to balance the lit ...
— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz

... idea to suppose that everybody is competent to learn or to teach everything. Would our great artists have succeeded equally well in Greek or calculus? A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not through much learning, but by the thorough possession ...
— Louis Agassiz as a Teacher • Lane Cooper

... rock, bowlder; pebble; calculus, concretion; flint, granite, marble, quartz, adamant, shale, flag, flagstone, cobblestone, rubble, brash, shingle; monolith, polyolith; cairn, muller, merestone; cromlech; madstone, snakestone; aerolite, meteorite; (of ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... distances, and revolution of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance.... Material substances, astronomical calculations, and all the paraphernalia of speculative theories ... will ultimately vanish, swallowed up in the infinite calculus of spirit." "Earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity" are merely the "vapid fury of mortal mind." "Heat and cold are products of mind"—even a "mill at work, or the action of a water wheel," is only a manifestation of "mortal mind force." Apart from mortal ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various


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