CALCULATION in a Sentence
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198 example sentences for CALCULATION, such as:
1. Our guess was confirmed by calculation.
2. Then I had a way of checking my calculation.
3. Her whole behavior is calculated for effect.
4. I calculated that he would arrive at midnight.
5. But, Mrs. Sparsit was wrong in her calculation.
2. Then I had a way of checking my calculation.
3. Her whole behavior is calculated for effect.
4. I calculated that he would arrive at midnight.
5. But, Mrs. Sparsit was wrong in her calculation.
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Meanings and Examples of CALCULATION
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calculation
n. problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
n. the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
Classic Sentence: (137 in 10 pages)
1 It is a simple calculation enough, though there is no use my boring you with figures.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2 Then I had a way of checking my calculation.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3 As to Tom, he was becoming that not unprecedented triumph of calculation which is usually at work on number one.
4 You are not impulsive, you are not romantic, you are accustomed to view everything from the strong dispassionate ground of reason and calculation.
5 But, Mrs. Sparsit was wrong in her calculation.
6 But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
Context Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
7 But, fortunately, Musgrave, who had begun to appreciate the meaning of my proceedings, and who was now as excited as myself, took out his manuscript to check my calculation.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
8 It is for that reason I am delighted to see you," continued the abbe, "although you have disturbed me in a most important calculation, which, if it succeeded, would possibly change Newton's system.
9 Another, older and less strong than he, had attempted what he had not had sufficient resolution to undertake, and had failed only because of an error in calculation.
10 That which I had done by the impulse of my best feelings produced the same effect as though it had been the result of calculation.
11 After finishing that calculation, I had a minute's hope.
12 I should not have been averse to do so, but that I imagined I detected trouble, and calculation relative to the extent of the cold meat, in Mrs. Micawber's eye.
13 These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty-one, ten, eleven and a half.
14 His business calculation that there was a certain price below which he could not sell certain grain was forgotten too.
15 A rapid calculation showed Ethan that Zeena could not be back at the farm before the following evening.
Example Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1 I spent hours doing that calculation and I still got the answer wrong.
2 These days, scientists use computers to help them to get out the difficult calculation concerned with space travel.
3 There's an element of calculation in his behaviour that makes me distrust him.
4 Our guess was confirmed by calculation.
5 Perhaps you have made a mistake in your calculation.
6 The accuracy of equivalent circuit method can be effectively improved if the calculation of PM leakage permeance is accurate.
7 A student over sixteen reckons as two under eleven in the calculation of school building costs.
8 The calculation and the hope is that North Korea's nuclear program is really a diplomatic gambit, designed to extract economic and political concessions.
9 The amount is calculated according to the number of years you have paid into the scheme.
10 I calculated that he would arrive at midnight.
11 This advertisement is calculated to attract the attention of housewives.
12 Her whole behavior is calculated for effect.
13 Benefit is calculated on the basis of average weekly earnings.
14 The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
15 Scientists have calculated that the world's population will double by the end of the century.