calculate

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English[edit]

Papers and electronic calculators are common tools for calculation.

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin calculātus, perfect passive participle of calculō (“I reckon, originally by means of pebbles”), from calculus (“a pebble”). Refer to calculus for origin.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkælkjʊleɪt/, /ˈkælkjəleɪt/
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  • Hyphenation: cal‧cu‧late

Verb[edit]

calculate (third-person singular simple present calculates, present participle calculating, simple past and past participle calculated)

  1. (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
    Calculate the square root of 3 to 10 decimal places.
  2. (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
  3. (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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.
  4. 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.
    to calculate or cast one's nativity
  5. To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
    • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons
      [Religion] is […] calculated for our benefit.
    to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of calculate
infinitive calculate
present participle calculating
past participle calculated
simple progressive perfect perfect progressive
present I calculate we calculate I am calculating we are calculating I have calculated we have calculated I have been calculating we have been calculating
you calculate you calculate you are calculating you are calculating you have calculated you have calculated you have been calculating you have been calculating
he calculates they calculate he is calculating they are calculating he has calculated they have calculated he has been calculating they have been calculating
past I calculated we calculated I was calculating we were calculating I had calculated we had calculated I had been calculating we had been calculating
you calculated you calculated you were calculating you were calculating you had calculated you had calculated you had been calculating you had been calculating
he calculated they calculated he was calculating they were calculating he had calculated they had calculated he had been calculating they had been calculating
future I will calculate we will calculate I will be calculating we will be calculating I will have calculated we will have calculated I will have been calculating we will have been calculating
you will calculate you will calculate you will be calculating you will be calculating you will have calculated you will have calculated you will have been calculating you will have been calculating
he will calculate they will calculate he will be calculating they will be calculating he will have calculated they will have calculated he will have been calculating they will have been calculating
conditional I would calculate we would calculate I would be calculating we would be calculating I would have calculated we would have calculated I would have been calculating we would have been calculating
you would calculate you would calculate you would be calculating you would be calculating you would have calculated you would have calculated you would have been calculating you would have been calculating
he would calculate they would calculate he would be calculating they would be calculating he would have calculated they would have calculated he would have been calculating they would have been calculating
imperative calculate

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Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

calculāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of calculō
    1. "calculate ye, compute ye"
    2. (figuratively) "consider ye as, esteem ye"

Participle[edit]

calculāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of calculātus
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