Synonyms:
calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work_out, reckon, figure
Meaning: make a mathematical calculation or computation
Synonyms:
calculate, estimate, reckon, count_on, figure, forecast
Meaning: judge to be probable
Usage examples
"Let us calculate," he went on.
Then I should be able to calculate my whole life for thirty years beforehand.
Let us therefore assume this last hypothesis as the most suitable to our situation, and calculate."
He knew that it would be most welcome, and he could not calculate how many hundreds in Confederacy currency it was worth.
He was thus able to calculate an orbit, and to predict a place where, by the end of the year, the planet should be visible.
During those years he lived but to calculate and think, and the most ludicrous stories are told concerning his entire absorption and inattention to ordinary affairs of life.
Mathematical astronomers tried to calculate a possible orbit for the body from the observations of Piazzi, but the observed places were so desperately few and close together.
"It's impossible!" Nevertheless, in self-defense he began to calculate what it might have cost to carry the account, until the appalling magnitude of the risk shut off the discussion.
He did not care much to calculate whether the payments had been made from the personal funds of his rival, or whether that rival had been employed to dispense Alice's fortune. Under either view of the case his position was sufficiently bitter. The truth never for a moment occurred to him.