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
Under these rules, a power plant can burn wood and claim carbon neutrality—a calculation not applied to fossil fuels.
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Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Data debate Redfin’s decidedly dour scorecard is controversial among industry gurus who have long defined the buyer/seller battle with curious calculations largely tied to a sales-to-listings ratio.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 28 Jan. 2026
Running the same calculations on a standard laptop would have required more than a thousand years.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
That’s because modern AI runs on vast clusters of tens of thousands of heavy, power-hungry graphics processing units (GPUs) running continuous calculations to train, or run, AI models, not traditional consumer or enterprise applications.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
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Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Data debate Redfin’s decidedly dour scorecard is controversial among industry gurus who have long defined the buyer/seller battle with curious calculations largely tied to a sales-to-listings ratio.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 28 Jan. 2026
Running the same calculations on a standard laptop would have required more than a thousand years.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
That’s because modern AI runs on vast clusters of tens of thousands of heavy, power-hungry graphics processing units (GPUs) running continuous calculations to train, or run, AI models, not traditional consumer or enterprise applications.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculation
Noun
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But currency is a wildcard in the ranking math.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
29 Jan. 2026
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Maybe Napoleon was busy eating tater tots during math class.—
Travis Pinson,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Jan. 2026
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This arithmetic explains why AI is being treated as a recession strategy rather than a moonshot.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The cold arithmetic of politics suggests none of these options end well.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
20 Jan. 2026
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This is in line with a decades-long trend of business processes working with increasingly sophisticated computation, with important differences.—
Bipul Sinha,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
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However, the rapid pace of computation also increases the likelihood of errors being introduced into the system.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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