calculationnoun
uk/ˌkæl.kjəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌkæl.kjəˈleɪ.ʃən/calculation noun (NUMBERS)
B2 [ C or U ] the process of using information you already have and adding, taking away, multiplying, or dividing numbers to judge the number or amount of something:
The calculations that you did/made contained a few inaccuracies.
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- I spent hours doing that calculation and I still got the answer wrong.
- She made a rough calculation of the likely cost.
- We used different methods of calculation, but we both got the same result.
- a numerical calculation
- According to my calculations, we're still two thousand pounds short.
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Calculations & calculating
- aggregate
- algorithm
- amount
- amount to sth
- average
- come to sth
- commutative
- computational
- compute
- equate
- figure
- get/have your sums right/wrong idiom
- grand total
- guesstimate
- instantaneous velocity
- miscalculate
- projected
- put
- put sth at sth
- result
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calculation noun (PERSON)
[ U ] careful planning to control a situation for your own advantage in a way that is slightly unpleasant and causes people not to trust you:
There's an element of calculation in his behaviour that makes me distrust him.
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Sly & devious
- artful
- backdoor
- calculating
- conniving
- conspiratorial
- cunning
- devious
- disingenuous
- fox
- foxy
- guile
- Machiavellian
- scheme
- sleight of hand
- sneaky
- trick
- tricky
- wily
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