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# calculation

noun (a calculation, calculations)

«calculation» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A calculation is working out an answer using numbers, such as adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#m1)
2. Calculation is careful planning or thinking about what will happen, sometimes selfishly, as in cold calculation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#m2)

### In the lessons

In maths lessons, show your calculations so the teacher can see your method; check calculations with the inverse operation or estimation. Mental calculation is done in your head; written calculation uses methods like column addition. In science, calculations find speed, averages and areas. In stories, a calculating character plans coldly.

### Examples

- Show your calculation in the box. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x1)
- My calculation was wrong; I forgot to carry the ten. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x2)
- Do the calculation in your head. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x3)
- The calculator does long calculations quickly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x4)
- By my calculation, we'll arrive at six. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x5)
- Check each calculation with an estimate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x6)
- "I always act with due order, consideration, and calculation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Verb: calculate; tool: calculator; adjective: calculating (crafty). In maths, a calculation must have the numbers and operations right; a mistake in one step changes the final answer.

## In Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah it is one of the three meanings of the Hebrew word "sefer": number, counting, and thought.

**Interpretation.** The tradition reads the Hebrew root as having three senses: sefar (number), sippur (telling) and sefer (writing). Together they show how God made the world.

### Examples

- 4) These Sepharim or three words of similar expression signify: first, number, calculation or idea; second, the word; third, the writing of the \*word. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/calculation/#x1)

### Note

Countable. Verb: calculate; tool: calculator; adjective: calculating (crafty). In maths, a calculation must have the numbers and operations right; a mistake in one step changes the final answer.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «calculation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculation/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «calculation» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/calculation/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«calculation» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/calculation.html) on Mova free.