calculating

Speech parts

1. calculating - Noun

2. calculating - Adjective

3. calculating - Verb

5. calculating - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Calculate

Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition.

The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.

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Examples

Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ? John Chrysostom

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. Donella Meadows

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. Arundhati Roy

Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific. Frank Luntz

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. Oscar Wilde

We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one. Allan Bloom

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