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Webster 1913 Edition
Calculating
Cal′cu-laˊting
,Adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.
2.
Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming;
as, a cool
. calculating
dispositionCalculating machine
, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.
Cal′cu-laˊting
,Noun.
The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.
Webster 1828 Edition
Calculating
CALCULATING
,ppr.