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Approximation :: Approximation (n.) An approach to a correct estimate, calculation, or conception, or to a given quantity, quality, etc..

Calculated :: Calculated (p. p. & a.) Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball..

Calculatory :: Calculatory (a.) Belonging to calculation.

Make :: Make (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day..

Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation..

Calculated :: Calculated (p. p. & a.) Adapted by calculation, contrivance. or forethought to accomplish a purpose; as, to use arts calculated to deceive the people..

Apotelesm :: Apotelesm (n.) The calculation and explanation of a nativity.

Synaxis :: Synastry (n.) Concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation..

Cusp :: Cusp (n.) The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc..

Calculable :: Calculable (a.) That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation.

Account :: Account (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time..

Reckoner :: Reckoner (n.) One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning..

Calculate :: Calculate (v. i.) To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to estimate; to compute.

Palinurus :: Palinurus (n.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.

Logarithm :: Logarithm (n.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division..

Abacus :: Abacus (n.) A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China..

Atmo :: Atmo (n.) The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0¡ Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris..

Calculation :: Calculation (n.) An expectation based on circumstances.

Inaccurate :: Inaccurate (a.) Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc..

Biometry :: Biometry (n.) Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.

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