calculationn.
/ˌkalkjᵿˈleɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌkælkjəˈleɪʃən/ 1. The action or process of reckoning; computation.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > action of calculating or counting
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supputation?a1475
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enumerating1864
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1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 230 A great magicien Shulde of his calculation, Seche of constellation, How they the citee mighten gette.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 46 He maketh his calculations, He maketh his demonstrations.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. 236 The Philosophres comen, and seyn here avys aftre her calculaciouns.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxv. §1. 590 One Bartholomew Scullet..hath by calculation found the very day.
1757 S. Johnson Rambler No. 154. ⁋5 No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 360 All arithmetic and calculation have to do with number.
2. concrete. The form in which reckoning is made; its product or result.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > result, sum
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 134 If we suppose our present calculation, the Phaenix now in nature will be the sixt from the Creation. View more context for this quotation
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. v. 94 If the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better. View more context for this quotation
1871 C. Davies Metric Syst. iii. 125 This calculation could not long suit the revenue.
3. Estimate of probability, forecast.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > [noun] > instance of
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1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. vi. v. 109 Hitherto he had advanced on his career without calculation.
1850 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Representative Men vi. 232 His very attack was never the inspiration of courage, but the result of calculation.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 26 The lazy gossips of the port, Abhorrent of a calculation crost.
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