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# calculation

«calculation» in Mova's school dictionary: **working out an answer using numbers, such as adding…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a calculation, calculations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A calculation is working out an answer using numbers, such as adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#m1)

2) Calculation is careful planning or thinking about what will happen, sometimes selfishly, as in cold calculation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths lessons, show your calculations so the teacher can see your method; check calculations with the inverse operation or estimation. Mental calculation is done in your head; written calculation uses methods like column addition. In science, calculations find speed, averages and areas. In stories, a calculating character plans coldly.

### examples

- Show your calculation in the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x1)
- My calculation was wrong; I forgot to carry the ten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x2)
- Do the calculation in your head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x3)
- The calculator does long calculations quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x4)
- By my calculation, we'll arrive at six. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x5)
- Check each calculation with an estimate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x6)
- "I always act with due order, consideration, and calculation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x7)

### note

Countable. Verb: calculate; tool: calculator; adjective: calculating (crafty). In maths, a calculation must have the numbers and operations right; a mistake in one step changes the final answer.

### In the corpora

- [The first electronic computers, in the 1940s, filled whole rooms and were used to break codes and do huge calculations.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «calculation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.