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单词 calculable
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Definition of calculable in English:

calculable

adjective ˈkalkjʊləb(ə)lˈkælkjələbəl
  • Able to be measured or assessed.

    the conversion of mass into energy affects stars in a calculable fashion
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In modern industrialized societies, the drive to make everything rational and calculable severs reason from the project of human emancipation and reduces it to the status of a tool.
    • In the cold war, nuclear arms issues were considered a matter of rationality, an international chess match in which self and mutual interests were calculable and predictable.
    • This is not, however, a war, a great mobilisation with a clear strategic or calculable end.
    • Unlike true insurers, these players are not accumulating pools of insurance reserves to settle calculable future claims, but are instead relying on sophisticated models and dynamic hedging strategies.
    • Michael is preparing to marry Delia, and the family is consumed with talk of dowries and other calculable advantages.
    • The essence of real leadership and responsible management is the ability to judge the difference between short-term calculable gains and deeply rooted core values.
    • The length, width and, where calculable, number of the four separate cell types are presented in Table 3.
    • The irrationality of rationality appears wherever quality management focuses on increasing efficiency, and this is then measured by quantifiable, calculable outputs of the drug care system.
    • The solution had to be general and calculable at the same time and in a mathematical fashion, that is, geometrically founded.
    • This book explains that all casino games, except blackjack, have a built-in house edge, a mathematically calculable advantage to the gaming establishment.
    • The potential interest rate bill is limited to a calculable size, and a borrower can decide whether to invest this extra cash in buying a particular property.
    • When I started teaching again I made quite a fuss doing my calculus courses constructively, making a point of presenting my epsilon-delta's as explicit, calculable, functions.
    • The visibility conferred on the calculating self who occupies a specific locale within a loosely assembled network of calculable spaces is intrinsically linked to norms of financial performance.
    • By informing her of the calculable risks, avoidable disabilities and prenatal test options, the counselor radically reframes Ms. K's hope-laden pregnancy.
    • They bought a company with real, calculable assets such as a cable network, a film library, a host of magazines, and television stations.
    • Temperature was revealed to be calculable from the average kinetic energy of a system of identical particles, and entropy was understood in terms of the number of quantum states available to the particles in that system.
    • Rogers tested for traces of vanillin, a chemical compound that slowly disappears over time at a calculable rate.
    • A sacrifice is not always a calculable commodity and often entails an element of uncertainty.
    • The mainstream record industry's position is a throwback to when cultural product was replicated via physical means, which spawned material artifacts of limited supply and calculable monetary value.
    • The philosopher critiques technology's instrumentality as marking the commencement of modernity as calculable, defined, measurable, ordered.

Derivatives

  • calculability

  • noun kalkjʊləˈbɪlɪtiˌkælkjələˈbɪlədi
    • Approaches to drug treatment have become increasingly receptive to the dimension of calculability.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The numbers of tortured, deported, and murdered people embody not the calculability, but rather the incomprehensibility, of genocide.
      • The development of accounting is linked to broader trends in economies and societies towards standardization and calculability in the efficient management of individuals.
      • What Gödel needed for the ‘arithmetization’ of a formal language was a precise definition of the intuitive concept of calculability for numerical functions.
      • Cost calculations were part of a regime that enhanced visibility and established a system of calculability that rendered human accountability visible.
      • In his description of the conditions of maximum formal rationality of capital accounting, he often talks of complete calculability.
      • This kind of rationalization tendentially subjects institutions to the norms of instrumental reason: efficiency, calculability, standardization.
      • These measures entail ‘excessive control and an over-focus on efficiency measurements and calculability.’
      • This culture can be seen as a symbol of a completely rationalized society, one that is strictly oriented toward calculability and the rapid pace of life; this societal structure now appears to be spreading as part of a global process.
      • Control is necessary to ensure efficiency, calculability and predictability.
      • Punctuality, calculability, exactness are forced upon life by the complexity and extension of metropolitan existence.
      • The Fordist model of work and organisation is marked by the emergence of individualised and economic forms of calculability which govern the social and the self
      • Post referred to Church's identification of effective calculability with recursiveness as a ‘working hypothesis’, and quite properly criticised Church for masking this hypothesis as a definition.
      • Of course, there can be no objections to efficiency, quality management, and calculability - so long as their realization does not produce irrational side effects.
      • The market naturally puts limits on the size of a firm or company because there are limits of calculability in a market.
      • A precondition for the feasibility of global balancing of all expected and real performances is the standardization and calculability of the expected performances.
  • calculably

  • adverb
    • The fight sequences are grounded and intense without being inordinately brutal, and calculably acrobatic without resembling a circus act.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His premise was calculably simple for the complex and changing times in which he wrote.
      • The infinite and inexorable movement of the earth's crust is calculably liable to shift the nuclear waste, when it will disperse in aquifers or on the surface.
      • The rotation of the protons emits synchrotron radiation which calculably consumes the rotational energy very slowly and very evenly.
      • We suggest calculably decreasing subsidies of different types as provisional measures.
      • A calculably shorter make-ready time significantly reduced net production processes and high throughput speeds in scheduling and production.
      • A trained eye will know how difficult it is to throw a clay pot on a wheel with such precision - to create eggshell-thin walls, or to ‘destroy’ or distort the work so calculably.
      • The predictive search engine uses its trend-spotting smarts to let consumers know when is the best time to buy airline tickets - calculably when prices will be at their lowest.
 
 

Definition of calculable in US English:

calculable

adjectiveˈkalkyələbəlˈkælkjələbəl
  • Able to be measured or assessed.

    the conversion of mass into energy affects stars in a calculable fashion
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The essence of real leadership and responsible management is the ability to judge the difference between short-term calculable gains and deeply rooted core values.
    • The length, width and, where calculable, number of the four separate cell types are presented in Table 3.
    • This is not, however, a war, a great mobilisation with a clear strategic or calculable end.
    • The mainstream record industry's position is a throwback to when cultural product was replicated via physical means, which spawned material artifacts of limited supply and calculable monetary value.
    • In modern industrialized societies, the drive to make everything rational and calculable severs reason from the project of human emancipation and reduces it to the status of a tool.
    • A sacrifice is not always a calculable commodity and often entails an element of uncertainty.
    • The solution had to be general and calculable at the same time and in a mathematical fashion, that is, geometrically founded.
    • Rogers tested for traces of vanillin, a chemical compound that slowly disappears over time at a calculable rate.
    • In the cold war, nuclear arms issues were considered a matter of rationality, an international chess match in which self and mutual interests were calculable and predictable.
    • The philosopher critiques technology's instrumentality as marking the commencement of modernity as calculable, defined, measurable, ordered.
    • The potential interest rate bill is limited to a calculable size, and a borrower can decide whether to invest this extra cash in buying a particular property.
    • Temperature was revealed to be calculable from the average kinetic energy of a system of identical particles, and entropy was understood in terms of the number of quantum states available to the particles in that system.
    • Michael is preparing to marry Delia, and the family is consumed with talk of dowries and other calculable advantages.
    • The visibility conferred on the calculating self who occupies a specific locale within a loosely assembled network of calculable spaces is intrinsically linked to norms of financial performance.
    • They bought a company with real, calculable assets such as a cable network, a film library, a host of magazines, and television stations.
    • The irrationality of rationality appears wherever quality management focuses on increasing efficiency, and this is then measured by quantifiable, calculable outputs of the drug care system.
    • By informing her of the calculable risks, avoidable disabilities and prenatal test options, the counselor radically reframes Ms. K's hope-laden pregnancy.
    • Unlike true insurers, these players are not accumulating pools of insurance reserves to settle calculable future claims, but are instead relying on sophisticated models and dynamic hedging strategies.
    • This book explains that all casino games, except blackjack, have a built-in house edge, a mathematically calculable advantage to the gaming establishment.
    • When I started teaching again I made quite a fuss doing my calculus courses constructively, making a point of presenting my epsilon-delta's as explicit, calculable, functions.
 
 
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