calculus
Calculation; computation.
Noun
- Calculation; computation.
Synonyms: ciphering reckoning calculation calculus computation computing supputation
- Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
- lambda calculus
- predicate calculus
- Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject.
- Near-synonyms: analysis, mathematical analysis
- I took calculus in high school.
Synonyms: infinitesimal calculus analysis mathematical analysis
- A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
- Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or...
Synonyms: stone
- Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
Synonyms: dental calculus tartar
- A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
- The Tory leader refused to state how many financiers he thought should end up in jail, saying: “There is not some simple calculus." - 2008 December 16, “Cameron calls for bankers’ ‘day of reckoning’”, in Financial Times:
Origin
* Borrowed from Latin calculus (“a pebble or stone used as reckoning counters in abacus”), diminutive of calx (“limestone”) + -ulus. * Mathematical topic is from differential calculus.
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