单词 | calculating |
释义 | calculatingn. 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 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 lemmasˈcalculating 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. < as lemmas |
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