Calculating machine
,
a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the
most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical
tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype
plate is then directly made.
Calculating
(Cal"cu*la`ting), n. The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating
results.
Calculation
(Cal`cu*la"tion) 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.