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▪ I. calculating, vbl. n.|ˈkælkjʊˌleɪtɪŋ|
[f. as calculated pa. pple. and ppl. a. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. calculate; calculation: chiefly attrib., as in calculating-engine, calculating-machine, calculating-machinery, etc. calculating machine, any machine designed to carry out calculations, esp. one that performs arithmetical operations mechanically.
1710Brit. Apollo III. 66 His Trigonometry for the Calculating of Sines, Tangents, etc. 1832D. Brewster Lett. Natural Magic xi. 292 The calculating-machine now constructing under the superintendence of the inventor [sc. Babbage]. 1833Brewster Nat. Magic xi. 292 The greater part of the calculating-machinery. 1855Proc. R. Soc. VII. 499 Report of a Committee appointed by the Council to examine the Calculating Machine of M. Scheutz. 1878Tait & Stewart Unseen Univ. ii. §80. 90 Charles Babbage, the designer of the well-known calculating engine. 1890Conan Doyle Sign of Four ii, You really are an automaton—a calculating machine. 1901Nature 11 July 268/2 The advantages of the calculating machines..are so great, and they are in so many ways preferable to logarithms where they can be used. 1955Koestler Trail of Dinosaur 184 The calculating machines called electronic brains.
▪ II. calculating, ppl. a.1|ˈkælkjʊˌleɪtɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That calculates; esp. that shrewdly or selfishly reckons the chances of gain or advantage. calculating boy, a child prodigy in arithmetic.
1809–12M. Edgeworth Absentee ix, He was calculating and mercenary. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxii, It had been resolved, with the most calculating cruelty. 1841Miall in Nonconf. I. 145 Men of a hardier, more sincere, less calculating religion. 1866North Brit. Rev. XLV. 39 Colburn, the American ‘calculating boy’, who was then being exhibited as a curiosity in Dublin. 1937H. G. Wells Star Begotten vi. 91 The proportion of children of the calculating-boy and musical-prodigy type seemed to be increasing quite markedly.
Hence ˈcalcuˌlatingly adv.
1855Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys i. (1879) 7 Huldah Brown looked calculatingly upon the gathered material.
▪ III. † calculating, ppl. a.2
Obs. See calculate v.2 |