as in maths
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 calculations
Significantly, though, the league agreed to hold a vote to decide whether to remove clubs’ ability to include asset sales — stadiums, training grounds, hotels, office buildings etc — in future PSR calculations.
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Oliver Kay, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Would other Premier League clubs have an argument to make about their own PSR calculations going forward?
—Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
His calculations conclude players’ salaries have increased 3% per year over the past ten years.
—Alex Sherman,lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2025
Keeping them in this state for longer periods of time requires large amounts of energy but is necessary for more complex calculations.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Items seniors spend most of their money on continue to outpace the inflation rate that COLA calculations are based on.
—Medora Lee, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2025
McCarty did his calculations by taking the roughly $600,000 cost per door to open the 52-unit Central Sacramento Studios Phase 2 downtown, for which the council approved loans during the same meeting.
—Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2025
There are nine teams spending more than $200 million on players in 2025, and there are five spending less than $100 million, according to MLB calculations obtained by USA Today.
—Alex Sherman,lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2025
It has long been assumed that no such loan write-offs are allowed to be included in clubs’ PSR calculations.
—Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Oliver Kay, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Would other Premier League clubs have an argument to make about their own PSR calculations going forward?
—Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
His calculations conclude players’ salaries have increased 3% per year over the past ten years.
—Alex Sherman,lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2025
Keeping them in this state for longer periods of time requires large amounts of energy but is necessary for more complex calculations.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Items seniors spend most of their money on continue to outpace the inflation rate that COLA calculations are based on.
—Medora Lee, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2025
McCarty did his calculations by taking the roughly $600,000 cost per door to open the 52-unit Central Sacramento Studios Phase 2 downtown, for which the council approved loans during the same meeting.
—Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2025
There are nine teams spending more than $200 million on players in 2025, and there are five spending less than $100 million, according to MLB calculations obtained by USA Today.
—Alex Sherman,lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2025
It has long been assumed that no such loan write-offs are allowed to be included in clubs’ PSR calculations.
—Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculations
computations
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Louisiana's corrections department has used the same system to track people in its custody, process time computations, and calculate release dates since 1991, according to court filings.—
Minnah Arshad,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
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Quantum computing could radically change our world thanks to its ability to perform computations in a few hours, which would take the fastest supercomputers decades to complete.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2024
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“Calculations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculations. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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