calculus
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin calculus (“a pebble or stone used for counting”), diminutive of calx (“limestone”) + -ulus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
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lambda calculus
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predicate calculus
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- (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.
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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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SynonymsEdit
- (in analysis): infinitesimal calculus
- (in medicine): stone
- (in dentistry): dental calculus, tartar
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from calculus
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TranslationsEdit
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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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Diminutive from calx (“limestone, game counter”) + -ulus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
calculus m (genitive calculī); second declension
- diminutive of calx
- pebble, stone
- reckoning, calculating
- a piece in the latrunculi game
InflectionEdit
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | calculus | calculī |
genitive | calculī | calculōrum |
dative | calculō | calculīs |
accusative | calculum | calculōs |
ablative | calculō | calculīs |
vocative | calcule | calculī |
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ReferencesEdit
- 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[1], 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)