Definition: 1. Make a mathematical calculation or computation. 2. Judge to be probable. 3. Keep an account of. 4. Predict in advance. 5. Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public. 6. Have faith or confidence in.
Use 'calculate' in a sentence:
1. We calculate that the average size farm in Lancaster County is 65 acres.
2. Kevin Kelly once explained how to calculate the date of death.
3. Shannon showed how to calculate this limit, opening the way to the design of compression methods that cram maximum information into the minimum space.
4. All this was used to calculate what percentage of time people spent in an unpleasant state.
5. Take a hundred and twenty values and calculate the mean.
6. The President took a calculated political risk in throwing his full support behind the rebels.
7. It would be wrong to portray his life as a calculated ascent to power at any cost.
8. Raff's team went on to calculate the likelihood of it happening.
9. The task was more arduous than he had calculated.
10. Such a statement was hardly calculated to deter future immigrants.
11. You know how to calculate it.
12. Such courses, Hacker argues, are a remedy for the numerical illiteracy of adults who have completed high-level math like algebra but are unable to calculate the price of a carpet by area.
13. It is incredibly difficult to calculate how much dead stock currently goes to waste.
14. A computer calculates by switching currents on or off.
15. In the nineteenth century, scientists made a number of important, but unsuccessful attempts to calculate Earth's age from the record of various natural processes.
16. There was nothing contrived or calculated about what he said.
17. I can calculate that for you.
18. Mathematical models that allow us to calculate the rise in temperature as a function of the increase indicate that the answer is probably yes.
19. One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this "ecological overshoot of the human economy".
20. Keyssar rightly understands that a better way to measure the impact of unemployment is to calculate unemployment frequencies.
21. You'll need to calculate how much time the assignment will take.
22. The experiment highlights the importance of morality: without it, how can a robot decide whom to save or what's best for humanity, especially if it can't calculate survival odds?
23. When all those factors are put together and the economists calculate the numbers, it ends up being a net positive, but a small one.
24. Attempts were made to calculate Earth's age from the thickness of surviving sedimentary rock and from the current level of the oceans' salinity.
25. Ever since people had begun to catalog the strata in particular outcrops, there had been the hope that these could somehow be used to calculate geological time.
26. Before we do the test, we're going to calculate what we would predict, so when we do the demo it will be meaningful.
27. After this test we can calculate: It takes 40 minutes to braise a chook by a normal boiler, but it only needs 15 minutes by the flameout reboiler.
28. Engineers calculate the strains and stresses on a bridge.
29. The rats arrived along with the settlers, and in just a few years, Hunt and Lipo calculate, they would have overrun the island.
30. It has been calculated that at least 47 000 jobs were lost last year.
31. She's got a good heart but she's calculating.
32. He took a calculated risk.
33. He'll never calculate faster, never drive better, or even fly more safely.
34. That, they calculate, would add 5.7 metres to the braking distance of a car travelling at 100kph.
35. If we calculate the change in entropy during gas mixing, we will find that this quantity is positive.
36. She was not calculating and evidenced no specific interest in money.
37. Knowing the width of Earth's orbit, the parallax shift lets astronomers calculate the distance.
38. I believe I am capable of calculating the political consequences accurately.
39. Interest is calculated daily and credited once a year, on 1 April.
40. He described Mr Long as cold, calculating and manipulative.
41. The President is calculating that this will somehow relieve the international pressure on him.
42. We calculated the cost to the nearest 50 dollars.
43. Use the formula to calculate the volume of the container.
44. With so many variables, it is difficult to calculate the cost.
45. I never realized you could be so calculating.
46. From this you can calculate the total mass in the Galaxy.
47. Her latest play is calculated to shock.
48. I think you have made an error in calculating the total.
49. This sort of life is not calculated to appeal to a young man of 20.
50. Fees are calculated on a sliding scale according to income.
51. No-one had found a way to calculate accurate distances to the planets from the Earth.
52. Conservationists calculate that hundreds of species could be lost in this area.
53. The satellite enables us to calculate their precise location anywhere in the world.
54. Benefit is calculated on the basis of average weekly earnings.
55. They sighted each pole, reading off measurements that were then used to calculate the change in elevation over each increment.
56. It is impossible to calculate what influence he had on her life.
57. This formula is used to calculate the area of a circle.
