| 单词 | calculate |
| 释义 | calculate (kælkjʊleɪt ) Word forms: calculates , calculating , calculated 1. verb B1 If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine. From this you can calculate the total mass in the Galaxy. [VERB noun] We calculate that the average size farm in Lancaster County is 65 acres. [VERB that] A computer calculates by switching currents on or off. [VERB] Synonyms: work out, value, judge, determine 2. verb B2 If you calculate the effects of something, especially a possible course of action, you think about them in order to form an opinion or decide what to do. I believe I am capable of calculating the political consequences accurately. [VERB noun] He is calculating that the property market will be back on its feet within two years. [VERB that] Collocations: calculate a distance When you are happy with your selection, press the button again to calculate the distance. Times, Sunday Times Calculate the distance between dorsal fin and tail as they cruise the surface. Times, Sunday Times As the signals bounce back from obstacles, a sensor on the instrument can accurately calculate the distance of an obstacle. Times, Sunday Times In both cases, operators must calculate the distance the stuntman needs to fly to land in the net based on height, weight, speed and weather conditions. The Sun It was easy to calculate the distance as each step was 31 inches and a mile was calculated to be around 2,000 steps. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To calculate this figure, astronomers had to dip back into old data of the star. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Lawyers calculated the figure owed to her in unpaid wages, expenses and bonuses was 47,000. The Sun Her parents calculated the figure once they saw how much their bills increased. Times, Sunday Times Quickly he calculates the figures needed to break through the energy barrier. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In calculating this figure, the firm ought to ignore the figure of $50, and remember instead to look at the land's current value. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Websites have also encouraged the use of interactive tools to enable you to budget, or calculate your pension or mortgage, at the click of a mouse. Times, Sunday Times Or they can change the years of compensation that are considered for calculating the pension base. Globe and Mail How dare they grant themselves huge pay rises, calculate their pensions using different methods and then expect everyone to sit back and let them get away with it? The Sun Improvements were made in the condition of old-age pensioners by allowing small incomes from savings to be disregarded in calculating the pension due. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The other source interacts with hydrogen atoms to calculate the percentage of water in the soil. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This method can be used to calculate the percentage of necessary tax increases or spending reductions needed to close the fiscal gap in the long-run. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To estimate ice area, scientists calculate the percentage of sea ice in each pixel, multiply by the pixel area, and total the amounts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Usually two methods are employed to calculate the percentage of completion: (i) by calculating the percentage of accumulated cost incurred to the total budgeted cost. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To calculate a percentage of a percentage, convert both percentages to fractions of 100, or to decimals, and multiply them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It uses satellite signals to calculate your position and speed. Times, Sunday Times The second part contains orbital information called ephemeris data and allows the receiver to calculate the position of the satellite. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In relativity theory we often want to calculate the position of a point from a different reference point. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To further increase the speed of rendering, the renderer may calculate the position of the reflected ray at each vertex. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While still a schoolboy, he became an expert in calculating the positions of the planets and the orbits of newly discovered comets. Times, Sunday Times Every day, businesses calculate the return on investment of different ways of achieving particular goals. Times, Sunday Times But how do you calculate the return? Times, Sunday Times Individuals with large houses would logically pay most and, as windows were visible from the outside, calculating the return should have been easy. Times, Sunday Times Studies from 1958 attempted to calculate the returns from additional schooling (the percent increase in income acquired through an additional year of schooling). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The fact that both the intensity and the duration of work vary makes it hard for economists to calculate the returns to various factors of production. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Calculate the cost of the electricity used in an average week to run one escalator. Times, Sunday Times But then you calculate the cost: 30,000 to train each apprentice to graduation, and in addition they receive hundreds of hours of priceless pastoral care. Times, Sunday Times Many attempts have been made to calculate the cost of aimless meetings. Times, Sunday Times The system could simply calculate the cost of disruption caused by road works. Times, Sunday Times Buyers can calculate the cost per square foot or metre and see how it relates to other homes for sale in the same neighbourhood. Times, Sunday Times A photograph was taken of them standing next to each other, and people who knew neither were asked to calculate the height difference. Times, Sunday Times A more advanced process called trilateralisation can calculate your height above the ground, putting you on a certain floor in a building. Times, Sunday Times By taking the cosine of that number, and multiplying it with the previous number, the observer will calculate the height of the tree. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Not to mention randomly calculating the height of whatever building caught her eye. The Times Literary Supplement The driver had guessed wrong when calculating the height of his truck and whether it would fit through the underpass. Globe and Mail Ministers rejected the findings, rather than calculate the impact of the third runway using a lower noise threshold. Times, Sunday Times It could also be used to calculate the impact on daylight levels, and of shadowing and wind turbulence. Times, Sunday Times And how can we calculate the impact of our own lives and actions? Times, Sunday Times A number of companies will help you calculate the impact of your flight, then charge you a suitable fee to undo the ecological damage. Times, Sunday Times Since 1997, the state had required energy producers to calculate the impact of their activities on human health and the environment. Times, Sunday Times Others estimate the average daylight throughout the year and use that to calculate the length of their fast. Times, Sunday Times One can calculate the length of its sides using trigonometry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The perimeter can be used to calculate the length of fence required to surround a yard or garden. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The longer the meridian line, the more accurately the observer can calculate the length of the year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A computer software fitting straight lines to the curve of a coastline, can easily calculate the lengths of the lines which it defines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The researchers used computer models to calculate the likelihood of warm years occurring with and without the influence of man-made emissions. Times, Sunday Times General aviation pilots use dew-point data to calculate the likelihood of carburetor icing and fog, and to estimate the height of the cloud base. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They compare the amount of rewards associated with each course of action and calculate the likelihood that they will receive the rewards. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The budget approach looks at the amount of additional greenhouse gas emissions over a period and calculates the likelihood of a particular temperature rise. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Computer simulations have assisted in calculating the likelihood of a chain reaction still occurring in a misfire. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Based on these parameters, the network location provider can calculate the location. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This broadcast information allowed a ground receiver to calculate the location of the satellite at any point in time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The car's computer then uses the amount of time that it takes those signals to return to calculate the location of the objects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Multiple and nested subroutines could be called so long as the user knew the length of each one in order to calculate the location to jump to. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By using a combination of surveying techniques and trigonometry they then calculate the locations of enemy batteries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The bands track movement and use the results to help calculate the number of calories burned, usually from gym workouts or jogging. The Sun From this one can calculate the number of points each striker has added to their team. Times, Sunday Times On starting, you complete some basic sums to calculate the number of calories you will need to sustain yourself during the programme. Times, Sunday Times Counting these areas and multiplying by the dilution factor allowed him to calculate the number of viruses in the original suspension. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Should the king ask how far he has gone, they calculate the number of ropes making up a league, and answer accordingly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I can explain bond convexity, calculate the price of a swaption and understand modern portfolio theory. Times, Sunday Times The exchange rate the site uses to calculate the price in pounds may be much better than you can find yourself. Times, Sunday Times Staff who work in its call centres, assess customers' credit ratings and calculate the price of insurance policies are most likely to have to retrain, experts said. Times, Sunday Times The next time you see a price list for a new-build development, try this test: take the smallest and largest units on offer and calculate their price per square foot. Times, Sunday Times How do we calculate the prices, which are included at the top of each listing in our reports of the top 100 restaurants? Times, Sunday Times Professionals constantly calculate the probability of winning hands with the cards they hold. Times, Sunday Times I calculate the probability at 20 per cent. Times, Sunday Times This produces a ranking and allows us to calculate the probability of different outcomes in any tie you could dream up. Times, Sunday Times Perhaps she might now calculate the probability that a senior minister, when asked a similar question, will break out in a cold sweat and give the wrong answer. Times,Sunday Times A group of fans bought 1,000 packets of stickers to calculate the probability of finding each player. Times, Sunday Times It has been used to calculate the rate of rise of journal costs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has not been possible to calculate the rate of dispersal. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The operator closes the shield to exclude beta, and can thereby calculate the rate of each radiation type. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The core of the case against him was that he wrongly took into account the bank's commercial interests when calculating this rate. Times, Sunday Times Second, the process for calculating the rates must be opened up to scrutiny. Times, Sunday Times The data to calculate the ratio are found on the balance sheet. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A light meter can automatically calculate the ratio of key plus fill to fill alone. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the third, the researchers took measure of each fish’s form, pinpointing different bodily landmarks and calculating the ratios between them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His team has developed a way of calculating the ratios of isotopes - different atomic forms of the same element - in keratin, the protein that gives hair its structure. Times, Sunday Times The overtime rate calculates the ratio between employee overtime with the regular hours in a specific time period. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Then go to the end to calculate your score. Times, Sunday Times We can calculate this score – the number of guesses or “bits” – using some simple math from the way in which many people label the colors in a simple color-labeling task. Smithsonian Mag This means that a computer will tailor questions to each students ability and calculate their scores. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The same attributes are applied when calculating this score for each item. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Then players review their words and calculate their scores. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are no pay rolls to help calculate the size of armies, no victualling accounts to show how they were supplied. The Times Literary Supplement Analysis of the rock has also enabled scientists to calculate the size of the impact, suggesting the asteroid was about nine miles wide and hit the planet at 40,000mph. Times, Sunday Times He calculated the size of the radiators, 'robotically' belching out heat at all hours, and the amount of additional energy that streamed into the rooms when the sun came out. Times, Sunday Times By calculating the size of each stock and its rate of reproduction, scientists can work out the number that can be lost through human activity without affecting its sustainability. Times, Sunday Times This can be useful, for example, in calculating the size of the material needed to make a parabolic reflector or parabolic trough. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Vehicles constantly broadcast their position, enabling other cars to calculate the speed and direction of all traffic on the road. Times, Sunday Times Do these calculate your speed in between each pair? Times, Sunday Times Without skid marks there was no way to calculate his speed, and there was only the suspect's testimony about his actions. Globe and Mail These measurements of sea surface topography allow scientists to calculate the speed and direction of ocean currents and monitor global ocean circulation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If you multiply the swell period by 1.5 you will calculate the speed in knots of the wave group for deep water. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It can be enormously difficult to calculate the tax due on these, particularly if some tax has already been paid in the other country. Times, Sunday Times It will then calculate your tax based on the difference. Times, Sunday Times I work in corporate tax compliance, helping business clients to calculate their tax liability. Times, Sunday Times The account will also add up your paid invoices and calculate the tax you owe. Times, Sunday Times Proponents offer studies that calculate the tax rate consistent with the legislation (23% inclusive), while critics argue that the rate would need to be much higher and offer competing estimates. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You can't really calculate the value of goodwill by itself - you have to look at it in relation to the total value of the business. ST Our regulators do not even try to calculate the value of the fun they forbid. Times, Sunday Times How do you calculate the value of your own pain? Times, Sunday Times Insurers use loss adjusters to calculate the value of your possessions at the point at which you make the claim. Times, Sunday Times You can argue about how best to calculate the value of future cashflows. Times, Sunday Times When a major storm approaches, the dam operators calculate the volume of water that the storm will add to the reservoir. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are several software programs available that can be used to calculate the volume of the space defined by the point cloud including some tree specific currently under development. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A simpler (but less interesting) way to determine the amount would have been to simply calculate the volume of the keg and divide by the volume of each cup. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Between 1658 and 1659 he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Traditionally, the size of a sequoia has been measured by calculating the volume of the tree's trunk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This calculated move has once again fuelled the fire of an already flaming row and has made any reconciliation all but impossible. The Sun And it was a calculated move by a group of employees who knew they had it good. Houston Chronicle It was a calculated move. Times, Sunday Times It was a calculated move to raise the political stakes and thereby force the government to divert war resources to lifting the siege. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I make calculated moves inside and outside the ring. Times, Sunday Times It also doesn't use pro-rata prices, instead researchers calculate the total cost as a consumer would. The Sun Thousands of lives would be saved if everyone did two and half hours of moderate activity a week, researchers calculate. Times, Sunday Times Researchers calculated the gulf in the cost of retirement by multiplying the difference by 19 years, the average length of retirement. Times, Sunday Times Researchers calculated that over a 47-year career the difference in earnings can amount to more than 522,000. Times, Sunday Times Researchers calculated that the harm to public health due to lack of exercise outweighed the arguable improvement to cyclists' safety. Times, Sunday Times Scientists calculate this will rise to more than 8.6 per cent by 2025. Times, Sunday Times To make talking about all the greenhouse gases together simpler scientists calculate the carbon dioxide equivalent of each greenhouse gas. Times, Sunday Times The scientists calculate that some 2.9% of the world's oceans are now covered by protected areas. Times, Sunday Times Scientists calculate that if we removed only the stuff shoved stealthily into pasta sauce and ready meals or glugged in fizzy drinks, the crisis would ease. Times, Sunday Times To estimate ice area, scientists calculate the percentage of sea ice in each pixel, multiply by the pixel area, and total the amounts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 计算 Japanese: 計算する |
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