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calculing

calculing is the present participle and gerund of calcule.

Meaning of calcule

Verb

calcule (third-person singular simple present calcules, present participle calculing, simple past and past participle calculed)

  1. (ambitransitive, especially, obsolete) To calculate, reckon.
    • So whā this Calcas knewe by calculing ¶ And eke by the anſwere of this god Apollo ¶ That grekes ſhulde ſuch a people bryng ¶ Thorowe which that Troye muſt be tordo ¶ He caſt anon out of the towne to goc. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye … [Troilus and Criseyde] (in Middle English), [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton...

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Questions about calculing

What is calculing the present participle and gerund of?
Calculing is the present participle and gerund of calcule.

Words near calculing in the dictionary

  1. calcules
  2. calculi
  3. calculiform
  4. calculifrage
  5. calculifrages
  6. calculing
  7. calculist
  8. calculists
  9. calculose
  10. calculosis
  11. calculous

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