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calculate English

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calculate Verb

— If you calculate something, you find its value, usually by using mathematics. These scores were calculated by subtracting total errors from total correct. The computers can calculate how much your family can afford to pay for college. — If you calculate something, you find the answer by thinking about the facts. The leaders seems to have calculated that the political benefit outweighs the cost to their people. — If something is calculated to do something, you hope or expect it to do it. She waved her hands around in a way calculated to make him laugh. — If you calculate on something, you plan on it or expect it. He hadn't calculated on her being late.

calculate

— verb make a mathematical calculation or computation — verb judge to be probable — verb specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public — verb (= forecast) predict in advance — verb (= account) keep an account of — verb (= count, bet, depend, look) have faith or confidence in you can count on me to help you any time Look to your friends for support You can bet on that! Depend on your family in times of crisis

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Language and thought Think Learn

Evaluate, test
Language and thought Think Learn

Solve
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Mathematics

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Simple sentences

To calculate the volume, multiply the length by the width by the depth.
How do you calculate the length of the circumference? I've forgotten.
They used math to calculate the shape of the universe immediately before and after the Big Bang.
How does one calculate the capacitance of a capacitor?
A computer can calculate things really quickly.
I can't calculate as fast as he.
The application allows you to quickly calculate the ratio of body mass index - BMI.
I like to calculate.
He couldn't calculate the price of the collection.
Tom couldn't calculate the price of the collection.
I need to calculate the mean and the variance.
Use this function to calculate square roots.
I cannot calculate the final cost until I talk with our contractors.
It is difficult to calculate the results of the election.
You cannot calculate on his punctuality.
Calculate how much money we will need next year.
In reply, Lisa asked me to calculate 100 factorial in my head.
How do you calculate the volume of a cube?
I can't calculate the distance.

Movie subtitles

But how is it possible to calculate the number of Earth-like planets orbiting other stars without looking at all the stars?
OK, let's use this time to calculate surface area of burns.
Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spend?
Count. calculate.
Can you calculate this for me?
If Ro-man wants us, he should calculate us.
Calculate your chances.
Calculate, hu-man!
I will calculate the spectrum dust in the calcinator death ray, to counteract this antibiotic. And you will all be destroyed.
How do you calculate that?
Did you calculate the risk?
Should be able to calculate.
Here are the fuel consumption reports for K.G. V and Rodney, sir, as close as I can calculate them.
Did you calculate the installments for the cooker?
Only a madman. - It is to see if the boy can calculate.
You calculate rapidly.
To pull this one off. we've gotta prepare everything beforehand, calculate everything scientifically.
By measuring the grains and the direction of the ice crystals, by readings on a micro altimeter, by checking our gravity meter to tell us what the rock floor is like, we can calculate the rate of flow rather precisely.
We don't know how Venusians calculate time or how long they live.
Now I calculate the 5:00 express to Brackhampton overtook my train somewhere about there.
Let's calculate how much fuel you'll need.
To calculate what?
You can calculate when they'll be here.
The slowness of speed made our missile calculate they must be drones or decoys so it ignored them and went after the fighters.
Alpha 60's task is to calculate and predict the results that Alphaville will subsequently be following.
How did you calculate the interest?
Just trying to calculate the lady's weight.
It is to see if the boy can calculate.
Didn't we prepare everything together, plan everything, calculate everything?
I don't calculate.
I calculate, so my steps count double.
How do you calculate whether it's better if some of them get killed and the others get home sooner or whether they all stay here but go to pot wondering if their wives are cheating on them.
To pull this one off we've gotta prepare everything beforehand, calculate everything scientifically.
Let's calculate an estimate.
The mathematical precision of it all you can try and calculate all you want but it's useless.
But maybe we can calculate it.
The peculiar thing is that you can actually calculate with these imaginary values.
You calculate everything?

News and current affairs

They buried the bad mortgages in complicated instruments, buried them so deep that no one knew exactly how badly they were impaired, and no one could calculate how to re-price them quickly.
Moreover, neither the costs nor the risks are possible to calculate with precision.
Any holder of Greek debt, especially long-term debt, must calculate the likelihood that Greece's political system will prove strong enough to push through the reforms needed to enable the country to service its debt fully (and on time).
Assuming that you are rational, you must calculate that you may be a member of a cultural minority.
With graduation rates and government spending easy to calculate, educational quality, which is difficult to measure, is likely to be the objective that slips.
Records of the printed receipts are automatically transmitted to the tax authorities and are used to calculate taxes.
People also count and calculate their food consumption.
In the US, more generous assumptions regarding discount rates are used to calculate pension-fund liabilities.
And economists have started to calculate that if China were to continue its prodigious growth rate, it would soon occupy far too large a share of the global economy to maintain its recent export trajectory.
Converting vast areas of Russia into new Chechnyas, Putin and his clique calculate that - sooner rather than later - they will play out their games of terror and security with millions of Muslims in the oil-rich plains of Eurasia.
All of them calculate the costs and benefits of their proposed solutions, and will compete to convince a panel of five world-class economists, including three Nobel laureates, that they have the very best solutions.
The unavoidable implication of this argument is that when we calculate what the tax rate for the superrich will be, we should not consider the effect of changing their tax rate on their happiness, for we know that it is zero.
After all, there is no way whatsoever to calculate the marginal products of different individuals in cooperative productive activities.
In the coming weeks, Hezbollah will have to calculate at several levels.
Why are we willing to calculate costs and benefits when it comes to traffic safety and terrorism, but not when devising policies to deal with global warming?
As for the exchange rate, PPP is only one of many ways to calculate its equilibrium level.
With ever more powerful processors, silicon chess players developed the ability to calculate so far ahead that the distinction between short-term tactical calculations and long-term strategic planning became blurred.
The cost of this power failure, though difficult to calculate, is surely huge.
Lee must not only calculate how tough to be with North Korea in response to the death of the Cheonan sailors, but also find a way to keep working with Kim Jong-il's police state.
In the past, top North Korean leaders tended to calculate carefully the costs and benefits when they acted to put pressure on the outside world.
Sri Lanka took a similar stance, using studies from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to calculate that in 2008, environmentally permissible carbon emissions totaled no more than 2,172 kilograms per person.
The US must also calculate what the Europeans will accept.
One is to have an international conference at which experts can suggest models to calculate exchange rates and politicians can negotiate deals.
Lenders to very large overleveraged institutions had to have some incentive to calculate the risks.
The super-boom got out of hand when the new products became so complicated that the authorities could no longer calculate the risks and started relying on the risk management methods of the banks themselves.

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