Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CALCULATION

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Definitions of CALCULATION

1. (mathematics, uncountable) The act or process of calculating.
2. (mathematics, countable) The result of calculating.
3. (countable) Reckoning, estimate.
4. (countable) An expectation based on circumstances.
5. (chess, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.

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Examples of Using CALCULATION in a Sentence

• To give a few examples: in checkers (British English name 'draughts'), a player wins by capturing all opposing pieces, while Eurogames often end with a calculation of final scores.
• The economic calculation problem (ECP) is a criticism of using central economic planning as a substitute for market-based allocation of the factors of production.
• The word has been in use in English since 1615, and is derived from Late Latin aera "an era or epoch from which time is reckoned," probably identical to Latin æra "counters used for calculation," plural of æs "brass, money".
• It is an example of an algorithm, a step-by-step procedure for performing a calculation according to well-defined rules,.
• Although the Greek mathematician and engineer Heron of Alexandria is noted as the first to present a calculation involving the square root of a negative number, it was Rafael Bombelli who first set down the rules for multiplication of complex numbers in 1572.
• It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
• Minis were designed for control, instrumentation, human interaction, and communication switching as distinct from calculation and record keeping.
• The Apollo Guidance Computer used metric units internally, with centiseconds used for time calculation and measurement.
• The gravitational constant is an empirical physical constant involved in the calculation of gravitational effects in Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation and in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
• On retrieval, the calculation is repeated and, in the event the check values do not match, corrective action can be taken against data corruption.
• So a program that calculates the factorial of an input number would have postconditions that the result after the calculation be an integer and that it be greater than or equal to 1.
• A sanity check or sanity test is a basic test to quickly evaluate whether a claim or the result of a calculation can possibly be true.
• One difference between Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity is the calculation of the date of Easter (see Computus).
• Catalan's constant was named after Eugène Charles Catalan, who found quickly-converging series for its calculation and published a memoir on it in 1865.
• Fractal art is a form of algorithmic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still digital images, animations, and media.
• The term internal refers to the fact that the calculation excludes external factors, such as the risk-free rate, inflation, the cost of capital, or financial risk.
• Those integrals are in turn named elliptic because they first were encountered for the calculation of the arc length of an ellipse.
• This may be used for calculation in cases where the integral can be calculated directly, but it is usually the case that residues are used to simplify calculation of integrals, and not the other way around.
• The search was undertaken by considering all Voyager 2 images and using a computer calculation to predict whether the moon would be visible under sufficiently favorable conditions in each one.
• Fermat was probably aware of the form of the factors later proved by Euler, so it seems curious that he failed to follow through on the straightforward calculation to find the factor.

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