calculus
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkælkjʊləs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkælkjələs/
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Noun
calculus (countable and uncountable, plural calculi or calculuses)
- (dated, countable) Calculation; computation.
- (countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
- lambda calculus
- predicate calculus
- (uncountable, often definite, the calculus) Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.
- (countable, medicine) A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
- renal calculus ( = kidney stone)
- (uncountable, dentistry) Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
- (countable) A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
- 2008 December 16, “Cameron calls for bankers’ ‘day of reckoning’”, in Financial Times:
- The Tory leader refused to state how many financiers he thought should end up in jail, saying: “There is not some simple calculus."
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Synonyms
- (in analysis): infinitesimal calculus
- (in medicine): stone
- (in dentistry): dental calculus, tartar
Derived terms
- calculus of moving surfaces
- calculus of sums and differences
- calculus of variations
- dental calculus
- differential calculus
- felicific calculus
- finite-difference calculus
- fractional calculus
- hedonic calculus
- hedonistic calculus
- implicational propositional calculus
- infinitesimal calculus
- integral calculus
- join calculus
- Kirby calculus
- lambda calculus
- logical calculus
- multivariable calculus
- noncalculus
- operational calculus
- pi-calculus
- precalculus
- predicate calculus
- propositional calculus
- tensor calculus
- tuple calculus
- utility calculus
Translations
formal mathematical system
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differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject
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stony concretion in an organ
deposits on teeth
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See also
References
- “calculus” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
- https://simplymaths.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/what-does-it-mean-calculus/
- calculus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkal.ku.lus/, [ˈkaɫ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
Noun
calculus m (genitive calculī); second declension
- diminutive of calx
- pebble, stone
- reckoning, calculating
- a piece in the latrunculi game
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | calculus | calculī |
| Genitive | calculī | calculōrum |
| Dative | calculō | calculīs |
| Accusative | calculum | calculōs |
| Ablative | calculō | calculīs |
| Vocative | calcule | calculī |
Derived terms
- calculārius
- calculensis
- calculō
- calculōsus
Related terms
Descendants
References
- calculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- calculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- calculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to go through accounts, make a valuation of a thing: ad calculos vocare aliquid (Amic. 16. 58)
- to go through accounts, make a valuation of a thing: ad calculos vocare aliquid (Amic. 16. 58)
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