单词 | calculate |
释义 | cal·cu·late transitive verb 1. a. < calculate atomic weights > b. c. < trying to calculate his expression — Hugh MacLennan > 2. 3. < calculated to succeed > 4. chiefly North a. b. intransitive verb 1. a. b. 2. < my uncle was calculating on the thing as concluded — Charles Lever > Synonyms: < calculate the velocity of light > < in 1920 it was calculated that in the twenty years … Gulf coast hurricanes caused $105,642,000 damage — A.F.Harlow > compute is often used for simpler mathematical processes, especially arithmetical ones, and with less abstruse and problematical questions < compute interest due > < compute time in hours or days > < one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood — Adam Smith > reckon, an informal and familiar term, usually suggests the simplest arithmetical processes < reckon up a small grocery bill > < eighteen pence a day may be reckoned the common price of labor in London and its neighborhood — Adam Smith > estimate may suggest the degree of complexity of any of the foregoing, but is likely to be used in situations in which data or figures are incomplete, guessed at, or unverified, and with processes perhaps simplified, to attain usable but tentative and approximate results < experts now estimate the Easter island gaunt stone faces to be less than 800 years old — R.W.Murray > Often it is used in connection with computing in advance, before the acquisition of sure data < estimate next year's rainfall > |
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