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
Round-trip distances were determined by ChatGPT calculations from the exact coordinates of each game site.
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Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
Part of the calculation was surely financial.
—Alaa Shahine Salha, semafor.com, 14 May 2026
The Build-vs-Buy Equation Is Already Shifting For most of the enterprise software era, the build-vs-buy calculation had a predictable answer.
—Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
Manufacturers get more chances and more budget room to make changes the further their ICE is from the two percent calculation.
—Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 14 May 2026
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Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
Part of the calculation was surely financial.
—Alaa Shahine Salha, semafor.com, 14 May 2026
The Build-vs-Buy Equation Is Already Shifting For most of the enterprise software era, the build-vs-buy calculation had a predictable answer.
—Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
Manufacturers get more chances and more budget room to make changes the further their ICE is from the two percent calculation.
—Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculation
Noun
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Now, if someone like Giannis Antetokounmpo is added, that would change that math.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
15 May 2026
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Or, if your Social Security funds are mixed with other income in the same account, the math becomes more complicated, and these protections may not cover the full balance.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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Orders that once required training and mental arithmetic now practically wrote themselves.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
15 May 2026
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Extrapolate those trend lines, and the arithmetic becomes alarming.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 May 2026
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Quantum computers also use computing gates that allow qubits to be shuffled between these states and to run computations in parallel.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
12 May 2026
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Currently, the economics only work for specific workload types like batch processing, rendering, and research computation.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
9 May 2026
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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