calculate

英 ['kælkjʊleɪt] 美 ['kælkjulet]

解释

※ 提供单词"calculate"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

calculate 计算

来自词根calc, 小石子。因古时用小石子计数。

calculate: calculate: [16] Calculate comes from the past participial stem of the Latin verb calculāre, a derivative of the noun calculus, which meant ‘pebble’. This was almost certainly a diminutive form of Latin calx, from which English gets calcium and chalk. The notion of ‘counting’ was present in the word from ancient times, for a specialized sense of Latin calculus was ‘stone used in counting, counter’ (its modern mathematical application to differential and integral calculus dates from the 18th century).

Another sense of Latin calculus was ‘stone in the bladder or kidney’, which was its meaning when originally borrowed into English in the 17th century.
=> calcarious, calcium, calculus, causeway, chalk
calculate (v.): 1560s, "to compute, to estimate by mathematical means," from Latin calculatus, past participle of calculare "to reckon, compute," from calculus (see calculus). Meaning "to plan, devise" is from 1650s. Replaced earlier calculen (mid-14c.), from Old French calculer. Related: Calculable.

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2. From this you can calculate the total mass in the Galaxy.: 由此你可以算出银河系的总质量。

5. The scientist could not calculate when the spaceship would reach the Jupiter.: 那位科学家没有算出那艘宇宙飞船什么时候会到达木星.