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quantify
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin quantificare (introduced by Sir William Hamilton in logic)
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?kw??n.t?.fa?/
Verb
quantify (third-person singular simple present quantifies, present participle quantifying, simple past and past participle quantified)
- To assign a quantity to.
- To determine the value of (a variable or expression).
- (logic) To relate a statement (called a predicate) to a given set using a quantifier—either for all (denoted ?) or there exists (denoted ?).
Synonyms
- (measure the quantity of): quantitate
Translations
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calculate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin calcul?tus, perfect passive participle of calcul? (“I reckon, originally by means of pebbles”), from calculus (“a pebble”). Refer to calculus for origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kælkj?le?t/, /?kælkj?le?t/
- Hyphenation: cal?cu?late
Verb
calculate (third-person singular simple present calculates, present participle calculating, simple past and past participle calculated)
- (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
- (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
- 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 adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons
- [Religion] is […] calculated for our benefit.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (determine value of or solution to): compute, reckon (old), work out
- (determine values or solutions): compute, reckon (old)
Derived terms
- backcalculate
- calculating
Related terms
- calculation
- calculus
- calculator
- incalculable
Translations
Further reading
- calculate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- calculate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “calculate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Latin
Verb
calcul?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of calcul?
- "calculate ye, compute ye"
- (figuratively) "consider ye as, esteem ye"
Participle
calcul?te
- vocative masculine singular of calcul?tus
calculate From the web:
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- what calculates gdp
- what calculates total tax
- what calculates your credit score
- what calculates stock price
- what calculates bmi
- what calculates snap score
- what calculates your rising sign
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