Associations to the word «Calculation»

Pictures for the word «Calculation»

Wiktionary

CALCULATION, noun. (mathematics) (uncountable) The act or process of calculating.
CALCULATION, noun. (mathematics) (countable) The result of calculating.
CALCULATION, noun. (countable) Reckoning, estimate.
CALCULATION, noun. (countable) An expectation based on circumstances.

Dictionary definition

CALCULATION, noun. The procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods.
CALCULATION, noun. Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities.
CALCULATION, noun. Planning something carefully and intentionally; "it was the deliberation of his act that was insulting".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope