calculat

v. i. To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to estimate; to compute. [ 1913 Webster ]

The strong passions, whether good or bad, never calculate. F. W. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. 1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Adapted by calculation, contrivance. or forethought to accomplish a purpose; as, to use arts calculated to deceive the people; a calculated response. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Likely to produce a certain effect, whether intended or not; fitted; adapted; suited. [ 1913 Webster ]

The only danger that attends multiplicity of publication is, that some of them may be calculated to injure rather than benefit society. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. calculation, fr. L. calculatio; cf. OF. calcucation. ] 1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. “The calculation of eclipses.” Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An expectation based on circumstances. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lazy gossips of the port,
Abhorrent of a calculation crost,
Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Long habits of calculative dealings. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. calculateur. ] One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ambition is no exact calculator. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]