'Calculation' definitions:
Definition of 'calculation'
From: WordNet
noun
The procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods [syn: calculation, computation, computing]
noun
Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities [syn: calculation, computation, figuring, reckoning]
noun
Planning something carefully and intentionally; "it was the deliberation of his act that was insulting" [syn: calculation, deliberation]
Definition of 'Calculation'
From: GCIDE
- Calculation \Cal`cu*la"tion\ (-l[=a]"sh[u^]n), 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]
Synonyms of 'calculation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adding,
- aforethought,
- amount,
- answer,
- appraisal,
- appraisement,
- approach,
- approximation,
- arithmetic,
- arrangement,
- assessment,
- assize,
- assizement,
- attack,
- blueprint,
- blueprinting,
- calculatedness,
- calculus,
- canniness,
- care,
- careful consideration,
- carefulness,
- casting,
- caution,
- cautiousness,
- charting,
- ciphering,
- circumspection,
- computation,
- conception,
- contrivance,
- correction,
- count,
- counting,
- deliberate stages,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- design,
- determination,
- determining,
- device,
- discretion,
- disposition,
- enterprise,
- envisagement,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- evaluation,
- expectation,
- express intention,
- expressness,
- figure,
- figuring,
- footing,
- forecast,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- game,
- gauging,
- gingerliness,
- graphing,
- ground plan,
- guardedness,
- guidelines,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- heed,
- heedfulness,
- hesitation,
- idea,
- instrumentation,
- intention,
- intentionality,
- judiciousness,
- layout,
- lineup,
- long-range plan,
- mapping,
- master plan,
- measure,
- measurement,
- measuring,
- mensuration,
- method,
- methodology,
- metric system,
- mindfulness,
- operations research,
- organization,
- pawkiness,
- plan,
- planning,
- planning function,
- prearrangement,
- preconsideration,
- predeliberation,
- predetermination,
- prediction,
- premeditation,
- preresolution,
- prior consultation,
- procedure,
- product,
- program,
- program of action,
- prudence,
- prudentialness,
- quantification,
- quantization,
- rating,
- rationalization,
- reckoning,
- regardfulness,
- result,
- safeness,
- safety first,
- schedule,
- schema,
- schematism,
- schematization,
- scheme,
- scheme of arrangement,
- setup,
- slowness to act,
- solicitude,
- strategic plan,
- strategy,
- survey,
- surveying,
- system,
- systematization,
- tactical plan,
- tactics,
- telemetering,
- telemetry,
- tentativeness,
- the big picture,
- the picture,
- thoroughness,
- totaling,
- toting,
- triangulation,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unprecipitateness,
- valuation,
- wariness,
- way,
- working plan