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CALCULATING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acting with a specific goal
Example:
the most calculating and selfish men in the community
Synonyms:
calculating; calculative; conniving; scheming; shrewd
Classified under:
Similar:
hard (dispassionate)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb calculate
Context examples:
But Spitz, cold and calculating even in his supreme moods, left the pack and cut across a narrow neck of land where the creek made a long bend around.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Calculating the magma storage time also helped the researchers determine how magma can be transferred to the surface.
(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)
Taking things a step further, by calculating the balance states for all of the objects in the galaxy, the team was able to calculate all their masses.
(Researchers Estimate Mass of Milky Way to Be 3.9 Tredecillion Pounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
However, the innovative dating techniques used in the study went a stage further, calculating how long the grains of quartz sediment that were dragged here by the early acequias have remained buried.
(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)
The researchers are inventing new materials that are small, fast, and can perform in a multitude of ways, such as mimicking neurons in the brain, computing with magnets, and calculating with quantum mechanics.
(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)
A graphical calculating device or a two-dimensional diagram designed to allow the approximate graphical computation of a function.
(Nomogram Chart, NCI Thesaurus)
A mathematical formula for calculating the body surface area for an organism.
(Body Surface Area Formula, NCI Thesaurus)
I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure; it moulded my feelings and allowed me to be calculating and calm at periods when otherwise delirium or death would have been my portion.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
In particular a well-defined MIRD system of calculating this dose for radiopharmaceuticals in humans from properties of the subject and its internal sources has been developed and maintained by the Society of Nuclear Medicine.
(Medical Internal Radiation Dose, NCI Thesaurus)
I knew the run of the simple medicine-chest the Ghost carried, and while I was heating water on the cabin stove and getting the things ready for dressing his wounds, he moved about, laughing and chatting, and examining his hurts with a calculating eye.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
