Calculating

[CalĀ·cu*la`ting]

Acting in a selfish scheming way

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Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

Adjective S.
used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Calculate

a.
Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

a.
Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition.

n.
The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.


Calculating

Cal"cu*la`ting , a. 1. Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations. 2. Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.

Calculating

Cal"cu*la`ting, n. The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.

Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.

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Usage Examples

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

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Other Usage Examples

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

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