0 to judge the number or amount of something by using the information that you already have, and adding, taking away, multiplying, or dividing numbers:
The cost of the damage caused by the recent storms has been calculated as/at over £5 million.
The new tax system would be calculated on the value of property owned by an individual.
[ + question word ] At some stage we need to calculate when the project will be finished.
[ + that ] He's calculated that it would take him two years to save up enough for a car.
1 to judge the amount or value of something by using information and esp. numbers:
[ + question word ] We tried to calculate how fast he was moving when the car crashed.
[ + that clause ] Lieutenant Chilton calculated that six men had been lost.
2 to find an amount or number using mathematics:
3 to form an opinion about something:
They are already in the lead and are calculating that, in all probability, they will win the election.
He's written a piece of software which calculates your tax returns for you.
I'll just calculate the total.
I'm trying to calculate how long the project will take to complete.
The computer will calculate your position with pinpoint accuracy.
Efforts to calculate the level of price support for rice required the government to elicit cost of production data from the agricultural associations.
Reliability between reviewers (regarding the decision to include or exclude an article) was calculated using kappa statistics.
Figure 2 shows the population of the excited levels calculated without the radiation trapping.
