| 释义 |
calculation|ˌkælkjʊˈleɪʃən|
Also 4 calculacioun.
[a. F. calculation, ad. L. calculātiōn-em, f. calculāre to reckon, calculate. See -ation.]
1. The action or process of reckoning; computation.
1393Gower Conf. II. 230 A great magicien Shulde of his calculation, Seche of constellation, How they the citee mighten gette. Ibid. III. 46 He maketh his calculations, He maketh his demonstrations. c1400Mandeville 236 The Philosophres comen, and seyn here avys aftre her calculaciouns. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iii. xxv. (R.) One Bartholomew Scullet..hath by calculation found the very day. 1757Johnson Rambl. No. 154 ⁋5 No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 412 All arithmetic and calculation have to do with number.
2. concr. The form in which reckoning is made; its product or result.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 134 If we suppose our present calculation, the Phaenix now in nature will be the sixt from the Creation. 1812Jane Austen Mansf. Park (1851) 81 If the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better. 1871C. Davies Metr. Syst. iii. 125 This calculation could not long suit the revenue.
3. Estimate of probability, forecast.
1847Emerson Repres. Men vi. Napoleon Wks. (Bohn) I. 372 His very attack was never the inspiration of courage, but the result of calculation. 1848Lytton Harold v. 142 Hitherto, he had advanced on his career without calculation. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 470 The lazy gossips of the port, Abhorrent of a calculation crost. |