Calculus Definition

kălkyə-ləs
calculi, calculuses
noun
calculi, calculuses
Any abnormal stony mass or deposit formed in the body, as in a kidney or gallbladder or on teeth.
Webster's New World
A method of analysis or calculation using a special symbolic notation.
American Heritage
Any system of calculation using special symbolic notations.
Webster's New World

Infinitesimal calculus.

Webster's New World

(uncountable, often definite, the calculus) Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.

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Other Word Forms of Calculus

Noun

Singular:
calculus
Plural:
calculi, calculuses

Origin of Calculus

  • Latin calculus (“a pebble or stone used for counting”), diminutive of calx (“limestone”) + -ulus.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin small stone used in reckoning calculate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Calculus Sentence Examples

  • But no carefully devised calculus can take the place of insight, observation and experience.

  • It is not, however, necessary that the notation of the calculus should be employed throughout.

  • Hence, early empiricism makes ethics simply a calculus of pleasures ("hedonism").

  • The well-known Treatise on Differential Equations appeared in 1859, and was followed, the next year, by a Treatise on the Calculus of Finite Differences, designed to serve as a sequel to the former work.

  • In 1747 he applied his new calculus to the problem of vibrating chords, the solution of which, as well as the theory of the oscillation of the air and the propagation of sound, had been given but incompletely by the geometricians who preceded him.

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SUSLUS

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