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calculate (KAL kyuh late") (verb), calculates; calculated; calculating
1. To determine information based on mathematical figures and formulas: Income tax is calculated on a percentage of net income minus exemptions and deductions.
2. To estimate the value of something or the timing of an event: Jamal calculates that he will be in Frankfurt in six more hours of flight time.
3. To intend or to encourage something to happen: The President's speech was calculated to ease national tensions.
4. Etymology: traced back to Latin calculus, "pebble", referring to the early use of pebbles in counting.
2. To estimate the value of something or the timing of an event: Jamal calculates that he will be in Frankfurt in six more hours of flight time.
3. To intend or to encourage something to happen: The President's speech was calculated to ease national tensions.
4. Etymology: traced back to Latin calculus, "pebble", referring to the early use of pebbles in counting.
The Romans had no adding machines. Even the art of writing was known to comparatively few people. So they did their adding and subtracting with the aid of little stones used as counters.
The Latin word for the little rock used in this way was calculus, a diminutive of calx, meaning "limestone".
From calculus, the verb calculare, "to calculate", was formed, and its past participle, calculatus, is the immediate origin of English "calculate".
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