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/kˈælkjəlˌeɪtəd/ /kˈælkjəlˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Calculated past part., adj.

Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.

Adapted by calculation, contrivance. or forethought to accomplish a purpose; as, to use arts calculated to deceive the people; a calculated response.

Likely to produce a certain effect, whether intended or not; fitted; adapted; suited. "The only danger that attends multiplicity of publication is, that some of them may be calculated to injure rather than benefit society." "The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws".

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Etymology of 'Calculated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Calculated" Quotes from Famous Books

... translated into West Saxon. The translation has not, however, obliterated all traces of the original; there are some peculiarities which survive, and which enable us to see through the present form those traces of a higher antiquity, which strengthen that confidence which the contents are calculated to inspire. ...

— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle

... always been that, once married to Clym, she would have the power of inducing him to return to Paris. He had carefully withheld all promise to do so; but would he be proof against her coaxing and argument? She had calculated to such a degree on the probability of success that she had represented Paris, and not Budmouth, to her grandfather as in all likelihood their future home. Her hopes were bound up in this dream. In the quiet days since their marriage, ...

— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy

... specimens on which these trials were made, the proportion of inorganic matter is large. The results therefore become a better expression of the power of peat, in general, to absorb ammonia, if we reckon them on the organic matter alone. Calculated in this way, the organic matter of the Beaver Pond peat (which constitutes but 68 per cent. of the dry peat) absorbs 1.4 per cent. of free ammonia, and 1.9 per cent. of ammonia out of the carbonate ...

— Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel • Samuel William Johnson

... menacing onrush upon the ship of those furious mountain surges, capped with ghostly green fire, with the deafening shriek and din of the gale in the unseen rigging overhead resounding in one's ears—a sensation well calculated to bring home to a man his own nothingness in presence of the power and majesty of Him Who causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; Who maketh lightnings for the rain; Who bringeth forth the ...

— The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" • Harry Collingwood

... strong expressions, which are calculated to strike a shuddering horror through the nerves—the reflections she interposes—her delays and circumlocution to give time for any latent feeling of commiseration to display itself—all, all are premeditated and ...

— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson

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