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Tabulation vs Calculation - What's the difference?

tabulation | calculation |

As nouns the difference between tabulation and calculation

is that tabulation is the act or process of tabulating while calculation is (mathematics|uncountable) the act or process of calculating.

tabulation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of tabulating.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
  • I’m using mathesis' — a universal science of '''measurement''' and '''order''' …
    And there is also '''taxinomia''' a principle of '''classification''' and ordered ''''''tabulation''''''.
    Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
    Western reason had entered the '
    age of judgement
    .
  • A result of tabulating: a table, displaying data in compact form.
  • Here is a tabulation of baseless claims made in the last month.
  • (computing) A printout.
  • calculation

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (mathematics, uncountable) The act or process of calculating.
  • (mathematics, countable) The result of calculating.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
  • (countable) Reckoning, estimate.
  • By my calculation, we should be there by midnight.
  • (countable) An expectation based on circumstances.
  • Synonyms

    * (act or process of calculating) calculating]], computation, [[compute, computing, reckoning (old ) * (Result of calculation) sum * (estimate) estimate, guess, reckoning, measurement

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