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Calculate
CALCULATE, v.t.
1. To compute; to reckon; to add, subtract, multiply or divide any sums, for the purpose of finding the amount, difference, or other result. This, to calculate the expenses of erecting a house, is to estimate and add together the several sums which each part of the materials and the work will cost.
2. To ascertain by the use of tables or numbers; as, to calculate an eclipse.
3. To form tables upon mathematical principles, as logarithms, ephemerides, etc.
4. To compute the situation of the planets at a certain time, for astrological purposes; as, to calculate the birth of a person.
5. To adjust by computation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of the means to the end; as, to calculate a system of laws for a free people. Religion is calculated for our benefit.
CALCULATE, v.i. To make a computation; as, we calculate better for ourselves than for others.
In popular use, this word is often equivalent to intend or purpose, that is, to make arrangements, and form a plan; as, a man calculated to go a journey. This use of the word springs from the practice of computing or estimating the various circumstances which concur to influence the mind in forming its determinations.
calculate appears in definitions for these words:
Calculate Calculative Can Cast Caster Compute Elegance Ephemeris Estimate Favoritism Genethliac Genethliatic Incalculable Miscalculate Miscalculated Mysteriousness Nativity Numerate Platonic Reckon Reckoning Risk Table Terror
Calculate Calculative Can Cast Caster Compute Elegance Ephemeris Estimate Favoritism Genethliac Genethliatic Incalculable Miscalculate Miscalculated Mysteriousness Nativity Numerate Platonic Reckon Reckoning Risk Table Terror
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