Part 1550

<blockquote>The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience <b>calculated</b> to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Cal"cu*la`ting</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; <as>as, a cool <ex>calculating</ex> disposition</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Calculating machine</col>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

<h1>Calculating</h1> <Xpage=203>

<hw>Cal"cu*la`ting</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.</def>

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<hw>Cal`cu*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>calculation</ets>, fr. L. <ets>calculatio</ets>; cf. OF. <ets>calcucation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.</def> "The <i>calculation</i> of eclipses."

<i>Nichol.</i>

<blockquote>The mountain is not so his <b>calculation</b> makes it. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An expectation based on cirumstances.</def>

<blockquote>The lazy gossips of the port, Abborrent of a <b>calculation</b> crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Cal"cu*la*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation.</def>

<blockquote>Long habits of <b>calculative</b> dealings. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Calculator</h1> <Xpage=203>

<hw>Cal"cu*la*tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.: cf. F. <ets>calculateur</ets>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Ambition is no exact <b>calculator</b>. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Cal"cu*la*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>calculatorius</ets>.]</ety> <def>Belonging to calculation.</def>

<i>Sherwood.</i>

<h1>Calcule</h1> <Xpage=203>

<hw>Cal"cule</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>calcul</ets>, fr. L. <ets>calculus</ets>. See <er>Calculus</er>.]</ety> <def>Reckoning; computation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Howell.</i>

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<hw>Cal"cule</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To calculate</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>