About The Word Calculating
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Calculating
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What's The Definition Of Calculating?
[adj] used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Calculating: calculative | conniving | hard | scheming | shrewd Related Terms | Find terms related to Calculating: artful | Byzantine | canny | careful | chary | chiseling | circumspect | collusive | computational | computative | computing | connivent | conniving | considerate | conspiring | contriving | covinous | crafty | cunning | deceitful | designing | devious | discreet | disingenuous | enumerative | estimating | estimative | false | falsehearted | finagling | forsworn | foxy | fraudulent | furtive | gingerly | guarded | guileful | indirect | insidious | insincere | intriguing | knowing | Machiavellian | manipulative | numerative | pawky | perjured | plotting | quantifying | safe | scheming | sharp | shifty | shrewd | slick | slippery | sly | sneaky | statistical | stratagemical | subtile | subtle | surreptitious | treacherous | trickish | tricky | two-faced | uncandid | underhand | underhanded | unfrank | unsincere | untruthful | up to | wary | wily See Also | Calculating In Webster's Dictionary \Cal"cu*la`ting\, a.
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 disposition.
{Calculating 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*la`ting\, n. The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results. |
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