What is the difference between calculate and calculus?
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(mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
(mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
(intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
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, title= To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
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To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
* Archbishop Tillotson
(dated, countable) calculation, computation
(countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.
(countable, medicine) A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
(uncountable, dentistry) Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
(countable) A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
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Calculus is a related term of calculate.
As a verb calculate
is to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.As a noun calculus is
calculation, computation.calculate
English
Verb
(calculat)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated , might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- A cunning man did calculate my birth.
- [Religion] is calculated for our benefit.
Synonyms
* (determine value of or solution to) compute, reckon (old), work out * (determine values or solutions) compute, reckon (old)Derived terms
* calculatingExternal links
* * ----calculus
English
Noun
(wikipedia calculus)- lambda calculus
- predicate calculus
- renal calculus ( = kidney stone)
