calculus
nounUK /ˈkæl.kjʊ.ləs/ · US /ˈkæl.kjə.ləs/
Etymology * Borrowed from Latin calculus (“a pebble or stone used as reckoning counters in abacus”), diminutive of calx (“limestone”) + -ulus. * Mathematical topic is from differential calculus.
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Dated Calculation; computation.
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Mathematics, Sciences Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
- lambda calculus
- predicate calculus
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Definite, Often Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject.
- Near-synonyms: analysis, mathematical analysis
- I took calculus in high school.
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Medicine, Sciences A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
- Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies.2015, Jaime Samour, Avian Medicine, page 297:
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A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
- The Tory leader refused to state how many financiers he thought should end up in jail, saying: “There is not some simple calculus."2008 December 16, “Cameron calls for bankers’ ‘day of reckoning’”, in Financial Times:
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