calculus
/ˈkæl.kjə.ləs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.60 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "lambda calculus"
- "predicate calculus"
- "Near-synonyms: analysis, mathematical analysis"
- "I took calculus in high school."
- "Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies."
- "The Tory leader refused to state how many financiers he thought should end up in jail, saying: “There is not some simple calculus.""
Etymology
* Borrowed from Latin calculus (“a pebble or stone used as reckoning counters in abacus”), diminutive of calx (“limestone”) + -ulus. * Mathematical topic is from differential calculus.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: calculus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkæl.kjə.ləs/
- British English: /ˈkæl.kjʊ.ləs/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Mathematics.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
absolute differential calculus
all students take calculus
bystander-calculus model
calculus of moving surfaces
calculus of sums and differences
calculus of variations
dental calculus
differential calculus