单词 | precalculate |
释义 | precalculatev. transitive. To calculate beforehand; to forecast. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > anticipate, forecast [verb (transitive)] to cast dangerc1449 forecasta1513 preventa1533 foredeem1542 premeditate1566 foretake1588 fore-run1591 foreprise1597 to lay one's account with (also on, for)1606 foreguess1640 prospect1652 precalculate1840 pre-empt1928 second-guess1941 1840 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Nov. 471 The Divinity in creating the Passions must have precalculated with care their action and effects. 1875 D. Masson Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, & Other Ess. 134 On what principles are they to be precalculated? 1936 Morning News (Florence, S. Carolina) 30 Apr. 6/7 Emil Hurja, whose slide rule methods of pre-calculating what voters are going to do worked with such uncanny precision back in '32. 1975 Rev. Econ. Stud. 42 69 Each nation..precalculates how its armaments expenditures should depend on the weapons stocks of both nations for all future times. 2002 Washington Post 31 Jan. t8 The system appears to conspire against the consumer who wants to precalculate fares. Derivatives ˌprecalcuˈlation n. the action of precalculating something. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > [noun] > instance of forethoughta1400 cast1519 forecasta1673 precalculation1841 calculation1848 lookahead1896 1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 49 469 There was no precalculation with reference to the actual events of the moment. 1928 S. de Madariaga Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards (1929) i. i. 24 Its characteristics are vital and irrational and cannot be reduced to a formula allowing forethought and pre-calculation. 2004 B. Forrest & P. R. Gross Creationism's Trojan Horse v. 97 The exquisite precalculation and execution of complex orbital maneuvers by space vehicles moving in a post-Newtonian, relativistic universe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1840 |
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