calculate on something

calculate | American Dictionary

calculate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈkæl·kjəˌleɪt/
to judge the amount or value of something by using information and esp. numbers:
[ + question word ]We tried to calculate how fast he was moving when the car crashed.
I calculated the total cost to be over $9000.
[ + that clause ]Lieutenant Chilton calculated that six men had been lost.

calculation

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌkæl·kjəˈleɪ·ʃən/
[ C ]The original calculations ignored weather conditions.

calculate | Business English

calculate
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈkælkjəleɪt/us
to find an amount or number using mathematics:
calculate according to/based on/on the basis ofTheir pension will be calculated on the basis of their earnings and length of service.
calculate thatIt has been calculated that the economy shrank by 2% last quarter.
to form an opinion about something:
They are already in the lead and are calculating that, in all probability, they will win the election.

Examples of calculate

calculate
Efforts to calculate the level of price support for rice required the government to elicit cost of production data from the agricultural associations.
Reliability between reviewers (regarding the decision to include or exclude an article) was calculated using kappa statistics.
Figure 2 shows the population of the excited levels calculated without the radiation trapping.
Based on these solutions, the spectrum of the reflected radiation field containing higher-harmonics will be calculated.
The transition radiation parameter s are calculated assuming a given current for the bunch.
The mean radius was calculated as the average of the maximal and minimal radius values.
Bioquant image analysis software was used to determine the area of each circular lesion, which was later used to calculate the radius of each lesion.
Since the palms were planted in equilateral triangles, canopy closure could be calculated from the planting density and approximate crown radius.
But there is always the pain and the loss that the calculating tables of insurance companies are not able to express, calculate, or compensate for.
Only responses of >2 were used to calculate the frequency of symptoms.
The egg output per worm pair was then calculated.
The average number of words per month was then calculated.
After determining the parameters describing the susceptibility to lodging, their correlation with the physical properties of varieties was straightforward to calculate.
The response variability of the simulated spike trains generated according to this model was then calculated in the same way as for the real data.
This effect is analysed for the two-sphere problem, and the sphere trajectories calculated.
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