calculating

[ kal-kyuh-ley-ting ]

/ ˈkæl kyəˌleɪ tɪŋ /

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adjective

capable of or made for performing calculations, especially arithmetical calculations: a calculating machine.

shrewd; cautious: a wise and calculating lawyer.

selfishly scheming: a cold and calculating dictator.

OTHER WORDS FOR calculating

3 designing.

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Origin of calculating

First recorded in 1800–10; calculat(e) + -ing²

OTHER WORDS FROM calculating

cal·cu·lat·ing·ly, adverbnon·cal·cu·lat·ing, adjectiveun·cal·cu·lat·ing, adjectiveun·cal·cu·lat·ing·ly, adverb

Words nearby calculating

calc-tufa, calculable, calculate, calculated, calculated risk, calculating, calculating machine, calculation, calculator, calculous, calculus

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How to use calculating in a sentence

Some dispute whether those gains have been as significant, and given the complexity of calculating, we won’t really know for sure what the wage picture is until later next year.
If the Economy Is Doing So Well, Why Does It Feel Like a Disaster?|Zachary Karabell|December 21, 2021|Time
All that calculating happens within the machine, and to human eyes it would look like a long string of 0s and 1s.
How Close Are Computers to Automating Mathematical Reasoning?|Stephen Ornes|August 27, 2020|Quanta Magazine
Cressida is not really suited for that kind of calculating existence of briefing and counter-briefing.
Who Would Want To Be A Royal Princess? Not Cressida Bonas...|Tom Sykes|May 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Critics run that tab as high as $4 billion, calculating the lost tax revenues over 40 years.
Are Athletes Using Your Tax Dollars to Juice?|Stuart Stevens|May 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Calculating gender differences is complicated, but the politics are simple.
What Equal Pay Day? McConnell Slams Paycheck Fairness Act|Eleanor Clift|April 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The idea that they would attempt to spin her nuanced response as politically calculating is even sillier.
How Wendy Davis Became America’s Conscience on Abortion|Keli Goff|February 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He did not take a step—do a jig—without calculating the odds.
Mandela: The Last Good Man|Mark Gevisser|December 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There is more of artfulness in the flatteries which appear to involve a calculating intention to say the nice agreeable thing.
Children's Ways|James Sully
He stood now with a calculating look, almost as if he were checking the verity of the report.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
But when Richard's calculating mind came to give thought to the future he found that this occasioned him some care.
Mistress Wilding|Rafael Sabatini
Usually cool and calculating, steady and active-minded, he seemed to have lost all grip upon himself.
The Underworld|James C. Welsh
Inserting these values in our general equation and calculating the result, we obtain 18.1E6 as the value of the constant.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz

British Dictionary definitions for calculating

calculating

/ (ˈkælkjʊˌleɪtɪŋ) /

adjective

selfishly scheming

shrewd; cautious

Derived forms of calculating

calculatingly, adverb

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