RECALCULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recalculate mean? 

• RECALCULATE (verb)
  The verb RECALCULATE has 1 sense:

1. calculate anew

  Familiarity information: RECALCULATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECALCULATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recalculate    ... he / she / it recalculates   
Past simple: recalculated   
Past participle: recalculated   
-ing form: recalculating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Calculate anew

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

The costs had to be recalculated

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

calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out (make a mathematical calculation or computation)

Domain category:

arithmetic (the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recalculation (the act of calculating again (usually to eliminate errors or to include additional data))

 Context examples 

Its trajectory will continue to be recalculated past that time frame as additional observations are received.

(Asteroid discovered by NASA to pass Earth safely, NASA)