calculate

英 ['k?lkj?le?t] 美['k?lkjulet]

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第三人稱單數(shù):?calculates;過去式:?calculated;過去分詞:?calculated;現(xiàn)在分詞:?calculating;

1. cal(諧音“靠”) => 可靠的結果需要計算得到。

calculate 計算

來自詞根calc, 小石子。因古時用小石子計數(shù)。

calculate: calculate: [16] Calculate comes from the past participial stem of the Latin verb calculāre, a derivative of the noun calculus, which meant ‘pebble’. This was almost certainly a diminutive form of Latin calx, from which English gets calcium and chalk. The notion of ‘counting’ was present in the word from ancient times, for a specialized sense of Latin calculus was ‘stone used in counting, counter’ (its modern mathematical application to differential and integral calculus dates from the 18th century).

Another sense of Latin calculus was ‘stone in the bladder or kidney’, which was its meaning when originally borrowed into English in the 17th century.
=> calcarious, calcium, calculus, causeway, chalk
calculate (v.): 1560s, "to compute, to estimate by mathematical means," from Latin calculatus, past participle of calculare "to reckon, compute," from calculus (see calculus). Meaning "to plan, devise" is from 1650s. Replaced earlier calculen (mid-14c.), from Old French calculer. Related: Calculable.

1. Take a hundred and twenty values and calculate the mean.: 取120個值計算平均數(shù)。

2. From this you can calculate the total mass in the Galaxy.: 由此你可以算出銀河系的總質量。

5. The scientist could not calculate when the spaceship would reach the Jupiter.: 那位科學家沒有算出那艘宇宙飛船什么時候會到達木星.