Detect vs Calculate - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Detected.
(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.
*, chapter=1
, 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.
* (William Shakespeare)
To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
* Archbishop Tillotson
As verbs the difference between detect and calculate
is that detect is to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing while calculate is (mathematics) to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.As an adjective detect
is (obsolete) detected.detect
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Derived terms
* detection * detective * detectorSee also
* discover * find * stumble uponAdjective
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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.