This moment, however important it may be, is rarely prepared by calculation or directed by will.
When the bird was still some distance above, it cocked its eye as though it were making some nice calculation and suddenly let go of its burden.
How lamentably he was mistaken in his calculation of their resistance, and his own powers of subjugating them, the sequel proved to him too clearly.
Very puzzling questions arise when we approach the problem of the distribution of pleasures and the calculation of their values.
We do not measure a great number of triangles and arrive at our conclusion after a calculation of the probable error of our measurements.
But as no business has been yet begun, no votes as yet taken, this calculation cannot be considered as sure.
Calculation has convinced me, that circumstances may arise, and probably will arise, wherein all the resources of taxation will be necessary for the safety of the State.
I apprehend there is more courage than calculation in this project.
Here indeed we see with special plainness how foreign learned calculation is to the poetical materials; in some instances the facts lead to quite a different view from that of the numbers.
But chaos being given, all the rest is spun out of it: all that follows is reflection, systematic construction; we can easily follow the calculation from point to point.
It may be surmised that such definite numbers, existing at one time in much greater abundance, afforded the data for an approximate calculation of the figures on which the systematic chronology is built up.
We have now to bring farther into the calculation the effects of relative industry, honour, and forethought; and thus to follow out the bearings of our second inquiry: Who are the holders of the Store and Currency, and in what proportions?
No calculation can be founded on my humour in either case.
No definite proportion can be settled; but if the theoretical calculation be compared with the experiences of the last wars, conclusions may be obtained which will most probably prove appropriate.
If we take into calculation the imponderabilia, whose weight can only be guessed at, the scale is inclined slightly in favour of the Triple Alliance.
This is not the place to examine this calculation more closely.
In considering the motives that induced Brutus to destroy himself, we must not forget to take into calculation the effect which the apparition he saw previous to the battle of Philippi must have had on his mind.
The calculation is not long,—I have made it without the aid of geometry.
He weighed the lump and made a calculation on paper, then handed her forty sovereigns.
Mr. Meadows made the calculation in a turn of the hand and announced it.
So marvelously close had been the calculation of the hunter, that at the very instant she obeyed him, the rifle of the nearest Indian was pointed full at her.
A half-hour's search discovered the trail of their friends within several hundred yards of where they had slept--thus close and exact had been the calculation of the sagacious Huron.
They set themselves a definite scheme to carry out, and made a careful calculation of the sums of money required to execute it.
The calculation perhaps was that its mere presence would suffice to delay the English king from attempting to cross.
The calculation was, that an invasion of this part of his dominions would cause the King of Spain more harm than a direct attack at home, since he drew by far the best part of his revenue from the American mines.
Those who caught sight of him saw a man worth seeing--tall, deep-chested, and erect.
He presently reappeared, bearing the inanimate body of her brother to the shore.
Le Gardeur struggled for a few moments, and sank under the blue waves that look so beautiful and are so cruel.
There must be a mistake in thecalculation somewhere--a figure dropt.
I ask you therefore to consider 'that contingency' well--not forgetting the other obvious evils, which the late decision about Pisa has aggravated beyond calculation .
As the correct figure is 3520, a little mental calculation will enable you to correct the figures so as to get it within a few feet.
While the speed will give the pressure, it is necessary to make a calculation to get the result while the machine does this for you.
This calculation shows that we must have 24 cubic feet in the pontoons.
A similar method of calculation is employed in discovering the limits within which the middle fifty per cent of the cases fall.
Coefficient of correlation, calculation of, values of.
Much inaccurate calculation has resulted from misguided attempts to secure a median point with the formula just given, which is applicable only to the location of the median measure.
Very seldom will anything be gained by carrying the calculationbeyond the second decimal place.
There was an eminent Italian musician, who had a piece of music inscribed on his tomb; and I have heard of a Dutch mathematician, who had a calculation for his epitaph.
It is growing tired at heart of mere machinery and this eternally running up against a formula of the laboratory or a mathematical calculation and analyzed force, as explanatory of everything in heaven and in earth.
The calculationamounts to seventy-one years, eight months, and twenty-four days.
The calculation of probabilities supplies an answer to this question.
Mental Arithmetic--that is, calculation without the employment of written symbols.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calculation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
