different between calculation vs appraisement

English

Etymology

From Middle English calculation, borrowed from Latin calculatio, calculationis.Morphologically calculate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kælkju?le???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kælkj??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

calculation (countable and uncountable, plural calculations)

1. (mathematics, uncountable) The act or process of calculating.
2. (mathematics, countable) The result of calculating.
3. (countable) Reckoning, estimate.

   By my calculation, we should be there by midnight.

4. (countable) An expectation based on circumstances.

Synonyms

• (act or process of calculating): computation, evaluation, reckoning (old); see also Thesaurus:calculation
• (Result of calculation): sum
• (estimate): estimate, guess, reckoning, measurement

Related terms

• calculable
• calculate
• calculator
• calculus

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Anagrams

• auction call

English

Etymology

appraise +? -ment

Noun

appraisement (countable and uncountable, plural appraisements)

1. (dated) The act of appraising.

   Synonym: appraisal

   • 1549, An Acte of the Relief Graunted to the Kinges Majestie by the Lordes and Commons, London,^[1]

     […] thesayd praysers before they take vpon them the appraisement of suche clothes, shalbe sworne in maner & forme folowyng.

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London: for the author, Volume 7, Letter 21, p. 77,^[2]

     I was obliged to stay till this afternoon, to settle several necessary matters, and to direct inventories to be taken, in order for appraisement; for every thing is to be turned into money, by his will.

   • 1887, Hall Caine, The Deemster, London: Chatto & Windus, Volume 3, Chapter 37, p. 140,^[3]

     she who is dear to me beyond words of appraisement

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, London: Osgood, McIlvaine, Volume 3, Chapter 49, p. 158,^[4]

     Having long discredited the old systems of mysticism, he now began to discredit the old appraisements of morality.

   • 1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, Penguin, 1954, Part 1, p. 27,^[5]

     A good name?what is called prestige?meant much in the Native world. They seemed to have made up, at some time, a joint appraisement of you, against which no one would afterwards go.

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