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precalculate, v.|priːˈkælkjʊleɪt|
[pre- A. 1.]
trans. To calculate or reckon beforehand; to forecast. Hence preˈcalculated ppl. a.
1841Blackw. Mag. XLIX. 470 Their consequences..cannot be precalculated. 1875Masson Wordsw., etc. 134 On what principles are they to be precalculated? 1881― De Quincey iv. 39 A carefully præcalculated opium-debauch. 1900B. Bacon in Expositor July 6 The Sanhedrin..must have also relied upon a fixed precalculated calendar.
So preˈcalculable a., capable of being precalculated; precalcuˈlation, the action of precalculating or reckoning beforehand.
1864Daily Tel. 31 Aug., The tally of the unfortunate thus doomed is an absolute and precalculable figure. 1841Blackw. Mag. XLIX. 469 There was no precalculation with reference to the actual events of the moment. |