calculate
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English[edit]
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]
Verb[edit]
calculate (third-person singular simple present calculates, present participle calculating, simple past and past participle calculated)
- (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.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
- (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.
- 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.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
- A cunning man did calculate my birth.
- to calculate or cast one's nativity
- 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
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of calculate
infinitive | calculate | ||||||||||
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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 |
Synonyms[edit]
- (determine value of or solution to): compute, reckon (old), work out
- (determine values or solutions): compute, reckon (old)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
(transitive) to determine the value or solution of sth.
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(intransitive) to determine values or solutions
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(intransitive) plan
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Further reading[edit]
- “calculate” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “calculate” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “calculate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
calculāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of calculō
- "calculate ye, compute ye"
- (figuratively) "consider ye as, esteem ye"
Participle[edit]
calculāte
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