Meaning of CALCULATION
| Pronunciation: | | `kalkyu'leyshun
|
| | Sponsored Links: | |
|
| |
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [n] the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
- [n] planning something carefully and intentionally; "it was the deliberation of his act that was insulting"
- [n] problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
|
| |
| | Synonyms: | | computation, computation, computing, deliberation, figuring, reckoning |
| |
| | See Also: | | approximation, conversion, derivative, derived function, differential, differential coefficient, estimate, estimation, extrapolation, first derivative, idea, integral, interpolation, mathematical operation, mathematical process, number crunching, operation, planning, preparation, problem solving, procedure, process, provision, recalculation, transposition | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \Cal`cu*la"tion\ (-l[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [OE.
calculation, fr. L. calculatio; cf. OF. calcucation.]
1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating;
computation; reckoning, estimate. ``The calculation of
eclipses.'' --Nichol.
The mountain is not so his calculation makes it.
--Boyle.
2. An expectation based on circumstances.
The lazy gossips of the port, Abhorrent of a
calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal
wrong. --Tennyson.
|
| |
| Thesaurus Terms |
| |
| | Related Terms: | | adding, aforethought, amount, answer, appraisal, appraisement, approach, approximation, arithmetic, arrangement, assessment, assize, assizement, attack, blueprint, blueprinting, calculatedness, calculus, canniness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, casting, caution, cautiousness, charting, ciphering, circumspection, computation, conception, contrivance, correction, count, counting, deliberate stages, deliberateness, deliberation, design, determination, determining, device, discretion, disposition, enterprise, envisagement, estimate, estimation, evaluation, expectation, express intention, expressness, figure, figuring, footing, forecast, foresight, forethought, game, gauging, gingerliness, graphing, ground plan, guardedness, guidelines, hedge, hedging, heed, heedfulness, hesitation, idea, instrumentation, intention, intentionality, judiciousness, layout, lineup, long-range plan, mapping, master plan, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, method, methodology, metric system, mindfulness, operations research, organization, pawkiness, plan, planning, planning function, prearrangement, preconsideration, predeliberation, predetermination, prediction, premeditation, preresolution, prior consultation, procedure, product, program, program of action, prudence, prudentialness, quantification, quantization, rating, rationalization, reckoning, regardfulness, result, safeness, safety first, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, setup, slowness to act, solicitude, strategic plan, strategy, survey, surveying, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, telemetering, telemetry, tentativeness, the big picture, the picture, thoroughness, totaling, toting, triangulation, uncommunicativeness, unprecipitateness, valuation, wariness, way, working plan |
| |
|
|
|