The difference between Calculate and Calculation


Calculate is also verb with the meaning: to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

Calculation is also noun with the meaning: the act or process of calculating.

check bellow for the other definitions of Calculate and Calculation

  1. Calculate as a verb (transitive, mathematics):

    To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

    Examples:

    "'Calculate the square root of 3 to 10 decimal places."

  2. Calculate as a verb (intransitive, mathematics):

    To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.

  3. Calculate as a verb (intransitive, US, dialect):

    To plan; to expect; to think.

  4. Calculate as a verb:

    To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.

    Examples:

    "to calculate or cast one's nativity"

  5. Calculate as a verb:

    To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.

    Examples:

    "to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people"

  1. Calculation as a noun (mathematics, uncountable):

    The act or process of calculating.

  2. Calculation as a noun (mathematics, countable):

    The result of calculating.

  3. Calculation as a noun (countable):

    Reckoning, estimate.

    Examples:

    "By my calculation, we should be there by midnight."

  4. Calculation as a noun (countable):

    An expectation based on circumstances.