Meaning

(dated, countable) Calculation; computation..

Definitions by Sense

1. (dated, countable) Calculation; computation.
2. (countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
3. (uncountable, often definite, the calculus) Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject.
4. (countable, medicine) A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
5. (uncountable, dentistry) Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
6. (countable) A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.

Example Sentences

lambda calculus

predicate calculus

Near-synonyms: analysis, mathematical analysis

I took calculus in high school.

Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies.

The Tory leader refused to state how many financiers he thought should end up in jail, saying: “There is not some simple calculus."

Word Forms

• calculi
• calculuses

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