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
Our software is built on engineering-grade calculations.
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
Should revenues hover at $5–6 billion while the market applies even lower sales multiples, the calculations suggest a stock price around $3—half of the current levels.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
New evidence includes a video of Washington, DC, that Bayoumi shot in 1999, and a handmade drawing of a plane with calculations.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
After a long process of validating legitimate claims and tossing out the ones that were fraudulent or duplicative, Angeion, the company in charge of distributing the payments, has finished its calculations determining how much each individual will get as payments go out starting this month.
—Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
But the numbers are rough calculations, according to the mayor's spokesman, Jeff Fleming.
—Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
By 2100, the average American could take in over a pound of additional sugar per year, according to calculations by Duo Chan, a climate scientist at the University of Southampton and one of the study's authors.
—Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
The way to avoid these limitations isn’t to abandon quantum field theory, but rather to go beyond the perturbative approach of Feynman diagrams, and to perform the full analytic calculations demanded by the underlying quantum field theory.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
Samsung did not specify how the two chips differ, but MediaTek says the 9400+ is built more specifically for AI applications and is 20% faster than the MediaTek 9400 at agentic AI calculations.
—PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
Should revenues hover at $5–6 billion while the market applies even lower sales multiples, the calculations suggest a stock price around $3—half of the current levels.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
New evidence includes a video of Washington, DC, that Bayoumi shot in 1999, and a handmade drawing of a plane with calculations.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
After a long process of validating legitimate claims and tossing out the ones that were fraudulent or duplicative, Angeion, the company in charge of distributing the payments, has finished its calculations determining how much each individual will get as payments go out starting this month.
—Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
But the numbers are rough calculations, according to the mayor's spokesman, Jeff Fleming.
—Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
By 2100, the average American could take in over a pound of additional sugar per year, according to calculations by Duo Chan, a climate scientist at the University of Southampton and one of the study's authors.
—Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
The way to avoid these limitations isn’t to abandon quantum field theory, but rather to go beyond the perturbative approach of Feynman diagrams, and to perform the full analytic calculations demanded by the underlying quantum field theory.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
Samsung did not specify how the two chips differ, but MediaTek says the 9400+ is built more specifically for AI applications and is 20% faster than the MediaTek 9400 at agentic AI calculations.
—PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculations
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Replicating those buffers of points in the bag before the turn of the year would put Leeds ahead of the maths and perhaps turn their springtime fixtures into a matter of consolidation rather than a scramble for survival.—
Sukhman Singh,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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The only problem is, economists can’t quite figure out his maths.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
17 Aug. 2025
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Unlike digital computers that crunch information in binary, the AOC embodies computations in physical systems.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
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Each Turing machine performs computations in discrete steps according to a unique list of simple rules.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Aug. 2025
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Her comments come as Democrats face a leadership crossroads in Washington, with long-serving figures under scrutiny and younger candidates pushing for change.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Sep. 2025
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Plenty of timepiece brands increased their prices, too, in response to those initial tariff figures back in April, according to Hodinkee.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Calculations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculations. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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