Dictionary entry

Calculation

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cal′cu‐la″tion (–lā″shŭn), n. [OE. calculation, fr. L. calculatio; cf. OF. calcucation.] 1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. “The calculation of eclipses.” Nichol.

The mountain is not so his calculation makes it.

Boyle.

2. An expectation based on circumstances.

The lazy gossips of the port,

Abhorrent of a calculation crost,

Began to chafe as at a personal wrong.

Tennyson.