Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: calculation
IPA transcription: [k,ælkjəl'eɪʃən]
Pronunciations of calculation
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: calculation, computation, computing
    Meaning: the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
  • Synonyms: calculation, computation, figuring, reckoning
    Meaning: problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
Usage examples
  • His calculation was a correct one.
  • And in this calculation I was not deceived.
  • The eclipse occurred later than calculation warrants.
  • Much of their suffering might have been prevented by a little calculation.
  • To simplify calculation, he divided the orbit into triangles, and tried if making the triangles equal would do.
  • Consequently, they could not keep on longer than fifty-four hours--and all this was a mathematical calculation!
  • These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty-one, ten, eleven and a half.
  • Taking the lift of that wonderful inertron belt into her calculation, she dove headforemost, like a green projectile, through the door.
  • The general who allows his hopes and desires to affect his observations and interpretations of the existing situation will surely make a mistake in calculation.
  • It was Lord Kelvin who, but a few years before the thing was actually accomplished, declared that aerial navigation was an impracticable dream, and demonstrated its impracticability by calculation.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Folding@home, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Pan (moon), License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Pope Demetrius I of Alexandria, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Fossil fuel, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 1956–62, License CC BY-SA 4.0