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calculus

/kal-kyuh-luhs/US // ˈkæl kyə ləs //UK // (ˈkælkjʊləs) //

微积分,微积分学,微分学,微分

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calculation计算,计算方法,计算方式,计算结果geometry形状,形状学,形状特征,形状学说math数学,数学上,数理,数学上的algebra代数,代数学division划分,部门,分工,分化addition增加,补充,加法,增加了multiplication乘法,倍增,倍增法,乘法运算subtraction减法,乘法,缩减,缩减法figures数字,数据,人物,数码numbers数字,数目,数量,数值trigonometry三角学,三角法,三角测量法,三角测量学concretion凝结物,凝固物,凝灰岩,凝结核cystolith囊石,囊岩,膀胱石,囊肿石bilestone水石,水泥石,石头,石灰石biliary calculus胆汁结石,胆囊结石,胆结石,胆汁淤积

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cal·cu·li [kal-kyuh-lahy], /ˈkæl kyəˌlaɪ/, cal·cu·lus·es.

    • : Mathematics. a method of calculation, especially one of several highly systematic methods of treating problems by a special system of algebraic notations, as differential or integral calculus.
    • : Pathology. a stone, or concretion, formed in the gallbladder, kidneys, or other parts of the body.
    • : Also called tartar. Dentistry. a hard, yellowish to brownish-black deposit on teeth formed largely through the mineralization of dead bacteria in dental plaques by the calcium salts in salivary secretions and subgingival transudates.
    • : calculation; estimation or computation: the calculus of political appeal.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inmathematics
Synonyms
algebra代数,代数学calculation计算,计算方法,计算方式,计算结果geometry形状,形状学,形状特征,形状学说math数学,数学上,数理,数学上的addition增加,补充,加法,增加了division划分,部门,分工,分化figures数字,数据,人物,数码multiplication乘法,倍增,倍增法,乘法运算numbers数字,数目,数量,数值subtraction减法,乘法,缩减,缩减法trigonometry三角学,三角法,三角测量法,三角测量学
as ingallstone
Synonyms
bilestone水石,水泥石,石头,石灰石concretion凝结物,凝固物,凝灰岩,凝结核cystolith囊石,囊岩,膀胱石,囊肿石biliary calculus胆汁结石,胆囊结石,胆结石,胆汁淤积

Examples

  • Forget 30 snowboarders with a normal probability distribution — even just three snowboarders with a uniform probability distribution was a challenge, requiring some hefty calculus and order statistics.

  • His school system has been all-virtual since March, and as Jara sees it, mental health should now be factored into the calculus about reopening schools.

  • Faced with that calculus, many other pregnant health care workers have chosen to get vaccinated.

  • We’re talking about an optional sporting spectacle, not some essential service to -humanity, and when you throw public health into the mix, the calculus can become uncouth pretty quick.

  • The pandemic may have changed that calculus, though cuts will be hard to come by.

  • Hongkongers aren't asking to secede from China, but Beijing's faulty calculus is only alienating the city.

  • She jumped at the chance to watch RT, or jumped at the chance to skip calculus homework.

  • Instead the real defining issue—class—does not fit so easily into the current political calculus.

  • With other emerging allies the calculus is trickier and leaves less margin for error.

  • Politics also played a role in the calculus of the Arab Muslims who supported ISIS.

  • Considerable hemorrhages from the bladder may occur in vesical calculus, tuberculosis, and newgrowths.

  • You,” said I. “You drive a nail as if it were an abstruse problem in differential calculus.

  • Besides these general theorems of formul, what remains in the algebraical calculus is the resolution of equations.

  • Then wait till you see him cut for calculus, or perform for hernia.

  • Then he dived into differential calculus and philosophical abstrusities.

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