as in maths
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
by my calculation, it should take me a month to save up for the weekend getaway
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Recent Examples of calculations
Now, the farmer is running the calculations.
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Helen Regan, CNN Money, 16 May 2026
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—Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
Payroll records, overtime calculations and direct deposit histories can all become important if there’s a disagreement over how much money was actually overpaid.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026
Plus, according to my fashion calculations, the bag basically paid for itself.
—Jacqueline Tempera, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2026
Round-trip distances were determined by ChatGPT calculations from the exact coordinates of each game site.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
This exponentially increases their ability to carry out complex calculations.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026
The risk calculations are based on air monitoring data, which vary across the state depending on location, nearby sources and other factors.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
The system operates by permitting upgrades across the engine systems if a manufacturer’s current ICE performance is found to be two percent or more down on the class-leading engine, in FIA calculations.
—Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Helen Regan, CNN Money, 16 May 2026
Word with Copilot drafts and summarizes documents; Teams with Copilot generates meeting summaries and captures action items; and Excel with Copilot handles data analysis useful for damages calculations and billing.
—Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
Payroll records, overtime calculations and direct deposit histories can all become important if there’s a disagreement over how much money was actually overpaid.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026
Plus, according to my fashion calculations, the bag basically paid for itself.
—Jacqueline Tempera, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2026
Round-trip distances were determined by ChatGPT calculations from the exact coordinates of each game site.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
This exponentially increases their ability to carry out complex calculations.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026
The risk calculations are based on air monitoring data, which vary across the state depending on location, nearby sources and other factors.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
The system operates by permitting upgrades across the engine systems if a manufacturer’s current ICE performance is found to be two percent or more down on the class-leading engine, in FIA calculations.
—Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculations
Noun
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Moderation is not a maths problem to solve, but a behaviour to support.—
Justin Kissinger,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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More variables than a maths textbook.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Quantum computers also use computing gates that allow qubits to be shuffled between these states and to run computations in parallel.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
12 May 2026
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This architecture is a step toward a single system that can accelerate both sparse and dense computations on the same silicon.—
Olivia Hsu,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Kofman’s article chronicles the path of such ideas from the fringes to the mainstream, outlining their influence on figures such as Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller, and Elon Musk.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
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State Department figures show 6,066 — or 99% — of the refugees were from South Africa, while the other three hailed from Afghanistan.—
Camilo Montoya-Galvez,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
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“Calculations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculations. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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