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单词 calculating
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calculatingn.

/ˈkalkjʊˌleɪtɪŋ/
Etymology: Formed as calculated adj. + -ing suffix1.
The action of calculate v.1; calculation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > process of calculating
accountinga1387
workingc1400
work1557
approximation1695
calculating1710
composition1827
figuring1859
extension1861
complementation1946
1710 Brit. Apollo 3 66 His Trigonometry for the Calculating of Sines, Tangents, etc.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as in calculating-engine, calculating-machinery, etc.
ΚΠ
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 292 The greater part of the calculating-machinery.
1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe ii. §80. 90 Charles Babbage, the designer of the well-known calculating engine.
C2.
calculating machine n. any machine designed to carry out calculations, esp. for the mechanical performance of arithmetical operations.
ΘΚΠ
society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > mechanical
calculating machine1832
mill1837
difference engine1843
society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > calculator
calculating machine1832
Comptometer1894
subtractor1914
calculator1946
programmable1964
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 292 The calculating-machine now constructing under the superintendence of the inventor [sc. Babbage].
1855 Proc. Royal Soc. 7 499 Report of a Committee appointed by the Council to examine the Calculating Machine of M. Scheutz.
1890 A. Conan Doyle Sign of Four ii You really are an automaton—a calculating machine.
1901 Nature 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.
1955 A. Koestler Trail of Dinosaur 184 The calculating machines called electronic brains.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

calculatingadj.1

/ˈkalkjʊˌleɪtɪŋ/
Etymology: Formed as calculate v.1 + -ing suffix2.
That calculates; esp. that shrewdly or selfishly reckons the chances of gain or advantage. calculating boy n. a child prodigy in arithmetic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > [adjective] > reckoning advantage
calculativea1797
calculating1812
1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee v, in Tales Fashionable Life V. 382 He was calculating and mercenary.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ix, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 210 It had been resolved, with the most calculating cruelty.
1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 145 Men of a hardier, more sincere, less calculating religion.
1866 N. Brit. Rev. 45 39 Colburn, the American ‘calculating boy’, who was then being exhibited as a curiosity in Dublin.
1937 H. G. Wells Star Begotten vi. 91 The proportion of children of the calculating-boy and musical-prodigy type seemed to be increasing quite markedly.

Derivatives

ˈcalcuˌlatingly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > [adverb] > reckoning advantage
calculatingly1865
1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys i. 7 Huldah Brown..looked calculatingly upon the gathered material.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

calculatingadj.2

Obsolete. See calculate v.2
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

> as lemmas

ˈcalculating
intransitive. To form stone in the bladder. (In quot. ˈcalculating adj.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [adjective] > concretion
kernellyc1400
calculous1605
tartarous1605
calculating1607
tartareous1625
calculative1657
calculary1660
calculose1714
petrescent1758
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > urinary disorders > [adjective] > calculus or sediment
furfurous1547
calculating1607
gravelly1607
gravelish1757
lithic1797
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 249 The same..with Parsly drunke in Wine..dissolueth the stone in the bladder, and preuenteth all such calculating grauell in time to come.
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