as in math
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
by my calculation, it should take me a month to save up for the weekend getaway
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Recent Examples of calculation
The average club could cut its salary cap number by $46.2 million, according to the site’s calculations.
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Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Their conflicting votes highlight the difficult balancing act for Democrats in battleground states, where political calculations often involve not just party loyalty, but also the concerns of a divided electorate.
—Nik Popli, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
According to the team’s calculations, the mass of the LMC’s supermassive black hole is 600,000 times that of the sun.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Supports complex calculations such as currency conversions, consolidation logic and hierarchical rollups for Group Reporting.
—Govinda Rao Banothu, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Their conflicting votes highlight the difficult balancing act for Democrats in battleground states, where political calculations often involve not just party loyalty, but also the concerns of a divided electorate.
—Nik Popli, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
According to the team’s calculations, the mass of the LMC’s supermassive black hole is 600,000 times that of the sun.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Supports complex calculations such as currency conversions, consolidation logic and hierarchical rollups for Group Reporting.
—Govinda Rao Banothu, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculation
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Its government has long emphasized science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
29 Mar. 2025
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Tucker graduated from Duke University in 2019 with a major in math and served as the sports editor for its student newspaper, The Chronicle.—
Hank Tucker,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The victory completes a Damascene conversion in German politics – using the outgoing parliamentary arithmetic.—
Sebastian Shukla,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2025
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This particular bump, as opposed to the previous ones in NBA history, is not driven by simple arithmetic.—
Lev Akabas,
Sportico.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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Beyond its reliability, Rust offers an unparalleled degree of replayability and verifiable computations, ensuring that financial computations produce the same results every time they are executed.—
Amandeep Midha,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can perform in ways that are impossible to match with classical computation (one of the more recent examples coming just last year).—
Ashley Belanger,
Ars Technica,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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