Calculate
verb
To find out a number or amount using math.
I need to calculate the total cost of the trip.
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- calculate the cost
- calculate the total
verb
To predict something based on known information.
They are trying to calculate the effect of the new tax law on their business.
Often appears as...
- calculate the effect
- calculate the risk
verb
To plan something in a clever way with a specific aim.
His every move is carefully calculated to help his image.
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- carefully calculated
- well-calculated
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Disapproving
verb
In computer science, to execute a series of operations on data.
The program is written to calculate all possible combinations.
Often appears as...
- calculate combinations
- calculate permutations
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Technical
verb
To find out a number or amount using math.
I need to calculate the total cost of the trip.
Often appears as...
- calculate the cost
- calculate the total
verb
To predict something based on known information.
They are trying to calculate the effect of the new tax law on their business.
Often appears as...
- calculate the effect
- calculate the risk
verb
To plan something in a clever way with a specific aim.
His every move is carefully calculated to help his image.
Often appears as...
- carefully calculated
- well-calculated
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
In computer science, to execute a series of operations on data.
The program is written to calculate all possible combinations.
Often appears as...
- calculate combinations
- calculate permutations
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Math Required
Use 'calculate' when math operations like addition or division are needed to get a result.
Please calculate the average score from these grades.
Pro Tip 2/2Objective Precision
'Calculate' implies a precise outcome, not a guess or estimation.
We'll need to calculate the exact dosage for the medication.
Pro Tip 1/2Math Required
Use 'calculate' when math operations like addition or division are needed to get a result.
Please calculate the average score from these grades.
Pro Tip 2/2Objective Precision
'Calculate' implies a precise outcome, not a guess or estimation.
We'll need to calculate the exact dosage for the medication.
Pro Tip 1/2Math Required
Use 'calculate' when math operations like addition or division are needed to get a result.
Please calculate the average score from these grades.
Pro Tip 2/2Objective Precision
'Calculate' implies a precise outcome, not a guess or estimation.
We'll need to calculate the exact dosage for the medication.
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Then that group of students is one thought closer to being what every teacher hopes their students will a lifelong learner. Based on the distance between the two stations -- The quest for knowledge and understanding never gets dull. He calculates the speed of light to within two percent of its actual value.
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Why do honeybees love...
Scientists claim the tiny insects can calculate angles, and can even comprehend the roundness of the Earth. But there's particular mathematical bee genius behind the most important aspect of honeybee the hive. Just like humans, bees need food and shelter to stay alive. The hive is not only the bees' home,
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Light seconds, light...
And because the expansion and contraction causes their brightness to vary, we can calculate their luminosity by measuring the period of this cycle, with more luminous stars changing more slowly. By comparing the light we observe from these stars to the intrinsic brightness we've calculated this way,
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Africa rising. Real or...
you don't want my job the average life for finance ministers is two years it's been calculated I thought about how to grab your attention today with just sitting here have learned so much and I decided there are two things one is I have to transport you from all these
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David Mackay: A reality...
and I feel a duty as a physicist to try to guide people around the claptrap and help people understand the actions that really make a difference, and to focus on ideas that do add up. Let me illustrate this with what physicists call a back-of-envelope calculation.
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Water Discovered In...
bit like a nice peaceful curtain draping over a window that's not moving. And instead, it looks like there's some sort of breeze gently fluttering that curtain. And what we were able to do is calculate what ions were generating
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NASA Trailblazer:...
calculating trajectories for mercury missions and project apollo catherine johnson was so good at what she did they needed her as an engineer when they had briefings i asked permission to go and they said well the girls don't
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Check your intuition:...
Instead, it's easier to calculate the odds that everyone's birthday is different. How does that help? Either there's a birthday match in the group, or there isn't, so the odds of a match and the odds of no match
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The Biggest Dinosaur...
At their peak, it's been calculated they grow up to 40 kilograms every day. The dinosaur embryos are so well preserved we can see they already have their teeth, in preparation for a lifetime of eating.
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How Mendel's pea plants...
These days scientists know how you inherit characteristics from your parents. They're able to calculate probabilities of having a specific trait or getting a genetic disease
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TED-Ed YouTube Channel...
Then that group of students is one thought closer to being what every teacher hopes their students will a lifelong learner. Based on the distance between the two stations -- The quest for knowledge and understanding never gets dull. He calculates the speed of light to within two percent of its actual value.
Video examples
Why do honeybees love...
Scientists claim the tiny insects can calculate angles, and can even comprehend the roundness of the Earth. But there's particular mathematical bee genius behind the most important aspect of honeybee the hive. Just like humans, bees need food and shelter to stay alive. The hive is not only the bees' home,
Video examples
Light seconds, light...
And because the expansion and contraction causes their brightness to vary, we can calculate their luminosity by measuring the period of this cycle, with more luminous stars changing more slowly. By comparing the light we observe from these stars to the intrinsic brightness we've calculated this way,
Video examples
Africa rising. Real or...
you don't want my job the average life for finance ministers is two years it's been calculated I thought about how to grab your attention today with just sitting here have learned so much and I decided there are two things one is I have to transport you from all these
Video examples
David Mackay: A reality...
and I feel a duty as a physicist to try to guide people around the claptrap and help people understand the actions that really make a difference, and to focus on ideas that do add up. Let me illustrate this with what physicists call a back-of-envelope calculation.
Video examples
Water Discovered In...
bit like a nice peaceful curtain draping over a window that's not moving. And instead, it looks like there's some sort of breeze gently fluttering that curtain. And what we were able to do is calculate what ions were generating
Video examples
NASA Trailblazer:...
calculating trajectories for mercury missions and project apollo catherine johnson was so good at what she did they needed her as an engineer when they had briefings i asked permission to go and they said well the girls don't
Video examples
Check your intuition:...
Instead, it's easier to calculate the odds that everyone's birthday is different. How does that help? Either there's a birthday match in the group, or there isn't, so the odds of a match and the odds of no match
Video examples
The Biggest Dinosaur...
At their peak, it's been calculated they grow up to 40 kilograms every day. The dinosaur embryos are so well preserved we can see they already have their teeth, in preparation for a lifetime of eating.
Video examples
How Mendel's pea plants...
These days scientists know how you inherit characteristics from your parents. They're able to calculate probabilities of having a specific trait or getting a genetic disease
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Guy Laliberte
Canadian Businessman
I do like the thrill of risk-taking, but it's always carefully calculated. I have done many high risk undertakings, but I have always measured the stakes. Not feeding the fear nor the doubt. But I also believe that you need to fuel passion in whatever you do. This is what I am trying to teach my children today.
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Jeffrey Brown
American Cartoonist
My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.
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Hal Needham
American Director
Anyone who thinks stuntmen are crazy is dead wrong. These guys are calculating. They rig things, they think about different ways of doing it... they're not afraid.
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Knute Rockne
American Coach
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
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Michael Douglas
American Actor
I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.
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Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
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Jeff Nichols
American Director
I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.
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Conrad Wolfram
British Businessman
Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss Philosopher
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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Rajon Rondo
American Athlete
My life is pretty calculated.
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Guy Laliberte
Canadian Businessman
I do like the thrill of risk-taking, but it's always carefully calculated. I have done many high risk undertakings, but I have always measured the stakes. Not feeding the fear nor the doubt. But I also believe that you need to fuel passion in whatever you do. This is what I am trying to teach my children today.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Brown
American Cartoonist
My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.
Quote examples
Hal Needham
American Director
Anyone who thinks stuntmen are crazy is dead wrong. These guys are calculating. They rig things, they think about different ways of doing it... they're not afraid.
Quote examples
Knute Rockne
American Coach
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Quote examples
Michael Douglas
American Actor
I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.
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Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
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Jeff Nichols
American Director
I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.
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Conrad Wolfram
British Businessman
Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss Philosopher
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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Rajon Rondo
American Athlete
My life is pretty calculated.
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