CALCULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calculate mean? 

• CALCULATE (verb)
  The verb CALCULATE has 6 senses:

1. make a mathematical calculation or computation

2. judge to be probable

3. keep an account of

4. predict in advance

5. specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

6. have faith or confidence in

  Familiarity information: CALCULATE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALCULATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they calculate    ... he / she / it calculates   
Past simple: calculated   
Past participle: calculated   
-ing form: calculating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a mathematical calculation or computation

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out

Hypernyms (to "calculate" is one way to...):

reason (think logically)

Verb group:

work out (be calculated)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "calculate"):

extract (calculate the root of a number)

resolve; solve (find the solution)

capitalise; capitalize (compute the present value of a business or an income)

budget (make a budget)

approximate; estimate; gauge; guess; judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

survey (plot a map of (land))

integrate (calculate the integral of; calculate by integration)

differentiate (calculate a derivative; take the derivative)

extrapolate; interpolate (estimate the value of)

divide; fraction (perform a division)

deduct; subtract; take off (make a subtraction)

quantise; quantize (apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor)

process (perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information)

prorate (divide or assess proportionally)

miscalculate; misestimate (calculate incorrectly)

recalculate (calculate anew)

average; average out (compute the average of)

factor; factor in; factor out (resolve into factors)

add; add together (make an addition by combining numbers)

multiply (combine by multiplication)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

calculable (able to be calculated or estimated)

calculation (the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods)

calculation (problem solving that involves numbers or quantities)

calculator (a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronic)

calculator (an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines))

calculus (the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Judge to be probable

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

calculate; count on; estimate; figure; forecast; reckon

Hypernyms (to "calculate" is one way to...):

evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "calculate"):

allow; take into account (allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

calculable (able to be calculated or estimated)

calculation (the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Keep an account of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

account; calculate

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "calculate"):

credit (accounting: enter as credit)

balance (compute credits and debits of an account)

overbalance (cause to be off balance)

debit (enter as debit)

compound (calculate principal and interest)

bill; charge (demand payment)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

calculation (the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods)

calculation (problem solving that involves numbers or quantities)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Predict in advance

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

calculate; forecast

Hypernyms (to "calculate" is one way to...):

anticipate; call; forebode; foretell; predict; prognosticate; promise (make a prediction about; tell in advance)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

calculable (able to be calculated or estimated)

calculation (the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods)

calculation (planning something carefully and intentionally)

calculative (acting with a specific goal)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

aim; calculate; direct

Hypernyms (to "calculate" is one way to...):

designate; destine; intend; specify (design or destine)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Have faith or confidence in

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

bank; bet; calculate; count; depend; look; reckon; rely; swear

Context example:

Depend on your family in times of crisis

Hypernyms (to "calculate" is one way to...):

trust (have confidence or faith in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A mathematical formula for calculating the body surface area for an organism.

(Body Surface Area Formula, NCI Thesaurus)

The formula to calculate body surface area in cats.

(Body Surface Area Formula for Cats, NCI Thesaurus)

The formula to calculate body surface area in dogs.

(Body Surface Area Formula for Dogs, NCI Thesaurus)

At two cents a word, he calculated, that would bring him four hundred and twenty dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Scientists also calculated the ratio of various craters' depths to diameters, and found that some amount of crater relaxation must have occurred.

(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)

They calculated how the price of a calorie of a given food compares with that of a representative basket of starchy staple food in each country — a measure called relative caloric price.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

By looking at this radiated heat during the lunar night, scientists can calculate how much of the surface is covered by large, warm rocks, versus cooler, fine-grained regolith, also known as lunar soil.

(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)

The numeric result derived from a BLAST sequence alignment assessment, calculated from the sum of substitution and gap scores.

(BLAST Raw Score, NCI Thesaurus)

Additionally, the team calculated the ages of the nebula's different regions.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)