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calculation

noun

ˌkal-kyə-ˈlā-shən

Definition of calculation

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 Error correction also requires that the hardware support measurements while a calculation is in progress, which a number of other technologies have already demonstrated. — ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026 To many fans, the trade of a homegrown favorite was a classic example of cold-hearted baseball calculation. — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Moving data between memory and processors can consume more energy than performing the calculations themselves. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026 But the government estimates housing inflation with a hypothetical calculation of what homeowners would have to pay in rent for the same property – which, of course, no one does. — Brandy Hadley, Fortune, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for calculation

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Eighth grade math scores in APS improved by 10 points between 2024 and 2026.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 10 Aug. 2026
What is presented as a surplus is political math, the short-term cash-basis budget view that governments use (like your checkbook).

— Sheila Weinberg, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of math

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NurPhoto via Getty Images Anthropic has quietly joined the frontier labs designing their own chips, a shift driven less by escaping Nvidia than by the arithmetic of serving billions of tokens a day.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
That arithmetic has become increasingly difficult for Japan to fight.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 July 2026

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And before the researchers could push far enough to find out, the computation collapsed.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026
Through the mid-1980s, Wolfram continued this work, discovering a number of fundamental connections between computation and nature, and inventing such concepts as computational irreducibility.

— Big Think, Big Think, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of computation

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