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Calculus definition

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calculi calculuses
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(medicine) An abnormal concretion in the body, usually formed of mineral salts and found in the gallbladder, kidney, or urinary bladder, for example.
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Any abnormal stony mass or deposit formed in the body, as in a kidney or gallbladder or on teeth.
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(medicine) An abnormal concretion in the body, usually formed of mineral salts and found in the gallbladder, kidney, or urinary bladder, for example.
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The branch of mathematics that deals with limits and the differentiation and integration of functions of one or more variables.
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A solid mass, usually composed of inorganic material, formed in a cavity or tissue of the body. Calculi are most commonly found in the gallbladder, kidney, or urinary bladder.
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A system or method of calculation.
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The branch of mathematics that deals with limits and the differentiation and integration of functions of one or more variables.
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A method of analysis or calculation using a special symbolic notation.
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The combined mathematics of differential calculus and integral calculus.
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Any method or system of calculating, reasoning, or evaluating.
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Any system of calculation using special symbolic notations.
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(dated, countable) Calculation, computation.
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(countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.

Lambda calculus.

Predicate calculus.

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(uncountable, often definite, the calculus) Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.
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(countable, medicine) A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.

Renal calculus (= kidney stone)

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(uncountable, dentistry) Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
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(countable) A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
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Singular:
calculus
Plural:
calculi, calculuses

Origin of calculus

  • Latin small stone used in reckoning calculate

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

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

    From Wiktionary

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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