calculating

Verb

calculate (third-person singular simple present calculates, present participle calculating, simple past and past participle calculated)

1. (transitive) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
   • Calculate the square root of 3 to 10 decimal places.

   Synonyms:

   compute, reckon, work out

2. (intransitive) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.

   Synonyms:

   compute, reckon

3. (US, dialectal, intransitive) To plan; to expect; to think.
   • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal’lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
4. To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
   • to calculate or cast one’s nativity
5. To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
   • to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people
6. To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.