A Topical Dictionary: Search for calculation

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Calculation \Cal`cu*la"tion\ (-l[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [OE.
calculation, fr. L. calculatio; cf. OF. calcucation.]
1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating;
computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of
eclipses." --Nichol.
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The mountain is not so his calculation makes it.
--Boyle.
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2. An expectation based on circumstances.
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The lazy gossips of the port,
Abhorrent of a calculation crost,
Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. --Tennyson.
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WordNet calculation
n 1: the procedure of calculating; determining something by
mathematical or logical methods [syn: computation, computing]
2: problem solving that involves numbers or quantities [syn: computation,
figuring, reckoning]
3: planning something carefully and intentionally; "it was the
deliberation of his act that was insulting" [syn: deliberation]

Moby Dictionary
adding , aforethought , amount , answer , appraisal , appraisement ,
approach , approximation , arithmetic , arrangement , assessment ,
assize , assizement , attack , blueprint , blueprinting ,
calculatedness , calculus , canniness , care , careful consideration ,
carefulness , casting , caution , cautiousness , charting , ciphering ,
circumspection , computation , conception , contrivance , correction ,
count , counting , deliberate stages , deliberateness , deliberation ,
design , determination , determining , device , discretion ,
disposition , enterprise , envisagement , estimate , estimation ,
evaluation , expectation , express intention , expressness , figure ,
figuring , footing , forecast , foresight , forethought , game , gauging ,
gingerliness , graphing , ground plan , guardedness , guidelines ,
hedge , hedging , heed , heedfulness , hesitation , idea ,
instrumentation , intention , intentionality , judiciousness , layout ,
lineup , long-range plan , mapping , master plan , measure ,
measurement , measuring , mensuration , method , methodology ,
metric system , mindfulness , operations research , organization ,
pawkiness , plan , planning , planning function , prearrangement ,
preconsideration , predeliberation , predetermination , prediction ,
premeditation , preresolution , prior consultation , procedure ,
product , program , program of action , prudence , prudentialness ,
quantification , quantization , rating , rationalization , reckoning ,
regardfulness , result , safeness , safety first , schedule , schema ,
schematism , schematization , scheme , scheme of arrangement , setup ,
slowness to act , solicitude , strategic plan , strategy , survey ,
surveying , system , systematization , tactical plan , tactics ,
telemetering , telemetry , tentativeness , the big picture ,
the picture , thoroughness , totaling , toting , triangulation ,
uncommunicativeness , unprecipitateness , valuation , wariness , way ,
working plan