calculus
IPA: kˈæɫkjʌɫʌs
noun
- (dated, countable) Calculation; computation.
- (countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
- (uncountable, often definite, the calculus) Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.
- (countable, medicine) A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
- (uncountable, dentistry) Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
- (countable) A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
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Examples of "calculus" in Sentences
- He worked on the development of the calculus.
- These rules cause the calculus to be confluent.
- Hilbert's calculus, sequent calculus, tableau calculus.
- In the sequent calculus, the rule of cut is admissible.
- The fluent calculus is a variant of the situation calculus.
- Further senses of this naturalness make no use of calculus.
- A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity.
- Calculus is not needed to arrive at the idea of secant lines.
- His thesis dealt with the topic of the calculus of variations.
- It entails the further development of the calculus of variations.