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noun

Calculation n.

The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." "The mountain is not so his calculation makes it."

An expectation based on circumstances. "The lazy gossips of the port, Abhorrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Calculation" Quotes from Famous Books

... informed of the death of Mrs. Burman Radnor; an event that occurred, according to Jarniman's report, forty-five minutes after Skepsey had a second time called for information of it at the house in Regent's Park—five hours and a half, as Colney made his calculation, after the death of Nataly. He was urged by some spur of senseless irony to verify the calculation and correct it ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... she had a genius for it, and a genius for calculation also, as I soon found out. When I reached Paris, I found a letter from her waiting for me; but it was nothing more than a repetition of all she had told me at our meeting. This letter was followed by several others, which she begged me to keep for her ...

— Within an Inch of His Life • Emile Gaboriau

... life are agony, but life itself is a blessing. Life is a mystery that defies all calculation. You can never say, 'To-day is wretched, therefore to-morrow must be the same!' And for the loss of a little gold you, in the full vigour of youth, with all the future before you, will dare to rush into the chances of eternity! You, who have never, perhaps, thought what eternity is! Yet," added ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... Holmes's calculation was fulfilled within a very few minutes by the appearance of Billy, the page, with the very letter ...

— The Valley of Fear • Arthur Conan Doyle

... elapsed, been sometimes objected, that General Brock's courage was greater than his prudence—that his attack of Fort Detroit, though it succeeded, was most likely to have, failed, and was therefore injudicious—and that a similar rashness and want of cool calculation were displayed in the manner ...

— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper

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