calculate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

   I calculated this gravy for the southern market.

2. 2
   verb

   To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

   Calculate the square root of 3 to 10 decimal places.

3. 3
   verb

   To plan; to expect; to think.

   I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal’lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

4. 4
   verb

   To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.

   to calculate or cast one’s nativity

5. 5
   verb

   To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.

   to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people

6. 6
   verb

   to make a mathematical calculation or computation

7. 7
   verb

   to judge to be probable

8. 8
   verb

   to have faith or confidence in

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calculātus, perfect passive participle of calculō (“to reckon, compute, calculate”, originally by means of pebbles) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from calculus (“a pebble”), further from calx (“limestone”, calc- in compounds) + -ulus (forms diminutives).