calculation
/ˌkælkjəˈleɪʃn̩/ noun B1- The act or process of calculating.
- The result of calculating.
- Reckoning, estimate. · By my calculation, we should be there by midnight.
- An expectation based on circumstances.
- The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
Plural calculations
From the library
Holmes’s calculation was fulfilled within a very few minutes by the appearance of Billy, the page, with the very letter which we were expecting.
It is a simple calculation enough, though there is no use my boring you with figures.
Then I had a way of checking my calculation.
Several rolls of paper were within, covered with figures and calculations, without any note to show to what they referred.
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