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
Creative decisions will be replaced with financial calculations designed to maximize short-term cash generation rather than long-term franchise-building or artistic quality.
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Joseph M. Singer, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
These calculations are made possible with the help of a program in Google that allows businesses to bid on keywords.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 May 2026
In the early 1960s, three legendary women — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson — helped America win the Cold War space race by performing complex mathematical calculations that launched astronauts into orbit and into history.
—Victoria Seals, AJC.com, 20 May 2026
Supercomputers are highly specialized computing systems that can process large amounts of data and perform complex calculations at speeds unmatched by standard computers.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
SpaceX also plans to launch thousands of orbiting data centers powered by the sun that would perform AI calculations.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
Quantum computers can handle a massive number of mathematical possibilities at once and complete calculations once considered impossible.
—Aldo Svaldi, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
Often lacking such a clear subject, the generator resorted to producing images of a person talking surrounded by people listening, or a (white, male) professor at his desk or drawing calculations on chalkboards.
—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 19 May 2026
Word with Copilot drafts and summarizes documents; Teams with Copilot generates meeting summaries and captures action items; and Excel with Copilot handles data analysis useful for damages calculations and billing.
—Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
Joseph M. Singer, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
These calculations are made possible with the help of a program in Google that allows businesses to bid on keywords.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 May 2026
In the early 1960s, three legendary women — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson — helped America win the Cold War space race by performing complex mathematical calculations that launched astronauts into orbit and into history.
—Victoria Seals, AJC.com, 20 May 2026
Supercomputers are highly specialized computing systems that can process large amounts of data and perform complex calculations at speeds unmatched by standard computers.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
SpaceX also plans to launch thousands of orbiting data centers powered by the sun that would perform AI calculations.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
Quantum computers can handle a massive number of mathematical possibilities at once and complete calculations once considered impossible.
—Aldo Svaldi, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
Often lacking such a clear subject, the generator resorted to producing images of a person talking surrounded by people listening, or a (white, male) professor at his desk or drawing calculations on chalkboards.
—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 19 May 2026
Word with Copilot drafts and summarizes documents; Teams with Copilot generates meeting summaries and captures action items; and Excel with Copilot handles data analysis useful for damages calculations and billing.
—Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculations
Noun
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Moderation is not a maths problem to solve, but a behaviour to support.—
Justin Kissinger,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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More variables than a maths textbook.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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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This architecture is a step toward a single system that can accelerate both sparse and dense computations on the same silicon.—
Olivia Hsu,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Apr. 2026
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Kofman’s article chronicles the path of such ideas from the fringes to the mainstream, outlining their influence on figures such as Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller, and Elon Musk.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
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State Department figures show 6,066 — or 99% — of the refugees were from South Africa, while the other three hailed from Afghanistan.—
Camilo Montoya-Galvez,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Calculations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculations. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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