Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - calculate

(calculates, calculating, calculated) 1. If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine. From this you can calculate the total mass in the Galaxy... We calculate that the average size farm in Lancaster County is 65 acres... = work out VERB: V n, V that 2. If you calculate the effects of something, especially a possible course of action, you think about them in order to form an opinion or decide what to do. I believe I am capable of calculating the political consequences accurately... The President is calculating that this will somehow relieve the international pressure on him. VERB: V n, V that