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CALCULATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Carefully thought out in advance
Example:
he made a deliberate decision not to respond negatively
Synonyms:
calculated; deliberate; measured
Classified under:
Similar:
intended (resulting from one's intentions)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb calculate
Context examples:
For the Mariana Trench region alone, four times more water subducts than previously calculated.
(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)
The researchers calculated that the density of the halo gas must be less than 0.1 atoms per cubic centimeter (equivalent to several hundred atoms in a volume the size of a child’s balloon).
(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil halo, ESO)
I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was the mainmast, fifteen inches in diameter at what was now the butt, still sixty-five feet in length, and weighing, I roughly calculated, at least three thousand pounds.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was low in the heavens, and I calculated that in less than an hour it would lie just above the topmost branches of the old oak.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The area under the moment curve (AUMC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the weight.
(AUMC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The area under the moment curve (AUMC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration.
(Observed Area Under the First Moment Curve Infinity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Based on the test findings, the researchers calculated that humans can discriminate more than 1 trillion scents.
(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)
The mean residence time (MRT) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration.
(Observed Mean Residence Time Infinity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The total body clearance for extravascular administration divided by the fraction of dose absorbed, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration.
(Observed Total Body Clearance by Fraction of Dose Absorbed, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
