"calculate" Definition

Definitions for the word "calculate" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. i.
To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end; as, to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To plan; to expect; to think.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to estimate; to compute.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v.
(-ting) 1 ascertain or forecast esp. By mathematics or reckoning. 2 plan deliberately. 3 (foll. By on) rely on; reckon on. calculable adj. [latin: related to *calculus]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
7. slang
a word much in use among the inhabitants of the Western States U.S., as “I CALCULATE you are a stranger here.” New Englanders use the word “guess” instead of CALCULATE, while the Virginians prefer to say “reckon.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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