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
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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."
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Calculate as a verb (intransitive, mathematics):
To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
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Calculate as a verb (intransitive, US, dialect):
To plan; to expect; to think.
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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"
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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"
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Calculation as a noun (mathematics, uncountable):
The act or process of calculating.
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Calculation as a noun (mathematics, countable):
The result of calculating.
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Calculation as a noun (countable):
Reckoning, estimate.
Examples:
"By my calculation, we should be there by midnight."
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Calculation as a noun (countable):
An expectation based on circumstances.
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