Calculate vs X - What's the difference?
calculate | x |
(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
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a verb calculate
is (mathematics) to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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.