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/kˌælkjəlˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Calculation n.

The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." "The mountain is not so his calculation makes it."

An expectation based on circumstances. "The lazy gossips of the port, Abhorrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Calculation" Quotes from Famous Books

... disturb you,' I began, when Buck, ever the man of action, with a scorn of palaver, strode past me, and, having prodded with the pistol that part of the bedclothes beneath which a rough calculation suggested that Mr Abney's lower ribs were concealed, ...

— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse

... Mr. Morse. Mr. DeForest desires to have his portrait taken such as it would have been six or eight years ago, making the necessary calculation for it, and at the same time making it a good likeness in ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse

... made Blucher victorious over Napoleon. Analyse the most wonderful manoeuvres, the most decisive operations, and if they are not the work of an exceptional man, a Frederick or a Napoleon, you will find they are inspired by passion more than by calculation. What would the war of 1870 have been without the hatred which we bore ...

— The Psychology of Revolution • Gustave le Bon

... below, a level floor of pure white cloud, stretching in an unbroken expanse toward every horizon. And so I kept my machine headed northeast, that I might regain the ground lost before I discovered the drift northwest. I had made a rough calculation of the time required to cover the seventy kilometres to R—— at the speed at which I was traveling. The rest I left to Chance, ...

— High Adventure - A Narrative of Air Fighting in France • James Norman Hall

... such a manner as to have no witnesses of his conduct? or is there anything which is intrinsically flagitious, even if no loss of reputation ensues? What do brave men do? Do they enter into an exact calculation of pleasure, and so enter the battle, and shed their blood for their country? or are they excited rather by a certain ardour and impetuosity of courage? Do you think, O Torquatus, that that imperious ancestor of yours, if he could hear what we are now saying, would ...

— The Academic Questions • M. T. Cicero

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