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What does calculation mean?

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Noun
  1. (mathematics) The act or process of calculating.
  2. (mathematics) The result of calculating.
  3. (countable) Reckoning, estimate.
  4. (countable) An expectation based on circumstances.
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This calculation is continued for every year until the end of the mortality table, and then all the net present values are added together.
The reduction of reasoning to mechanical calculation that they identified is no clearer than in the inhuman logic of capitalist exchange.
This small error is systematic and can either be ignored or allowed for in calculation if the temperature is known.
The image was generated by a calculation that could have been done by hand, albeit more laboriously.
Driving the route at a steady speed and recording the time on a digital stopwatch leaves a simple calculation to get the speed.
A young man sat against the wall doing calculation with an abacus and recording data onto paper.

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