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Webster 1913 Edition
Calculation
Calˊcu-la′tion
(-lā′shŭn)
, Noun.
[OE.
calculation
, fr. L. calculatio
; cf. OF. calcucation
.] 1.
The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.
“The calculation of eclipses.” Nichol.
The mountain is not so his
calculation
makes it. Boyle.
2.
An expectation based on circumstances.
The lazy gossips of the port,
Abhorrent of a
Began to chafe as at a personal wrong.
Abhorrent of a
calculation
crost,Began to chafe as at a personal wrong.
Tennyson.