CALCULATION in a Sentence

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In cases where no data were available, the most probable structure of a molecule was calculated using molecular mechanics.

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 Meanings and Examples of CALCULATION
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calculation
 n.  planning something carefully and intentionally
Classic Sentence: (137 in 10 pages)
1  It is a simple calculation enough, though there is no use my boring you with figures.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  Then I had a way of checking my calculation.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  As to Tom, he was becoming that not unprecedented triumph of calculation which is usually at work on number one.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
4  You are not impulsive, you are not romantic, you are accustomed to view everything from the strong dispassionate ground of reason and calculation.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
5  But, Mrs. Sparsit was wrong in her calculation.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
6  But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
7  But, fortunately, Musgrave, who had begun to appreciate the meaning of my proceedings, and who was now as excited as myself, took out his manuscript to check my calculation.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
8  It is for that reason I am delighted to see you," continued the abbe, "although you have disturbed me in a most important calculation, which, if it succeeded, would possibly change Newton's system.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
9  Another, older and less strong than he, had attempted what he had not had sufficient resolution to undertake, and had failed only because of an error in calculation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
10  That which I had done by the impulse of my best feelings produced the same effect as though it had been the result of calculation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
11  After finishing that calculation, I had a minute's hope.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 113. The Past.
12  I should not have been averse to do so, but that I imagined I detected trouble, and calculation relative to the extent of the cold meat, in Mrs. Micawber's eye.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
13  These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty-one, ten, eleven and a half.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
14  His business calculation that there was a certain price below which he could not sell certain grain was forgotten too.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 2
15  A rapid calculation showed Ethan that Zeena could not be back at the farm before the following evening.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
16  Our charges are calculated by reference to an hourly rate.
17  Their movements through the region were calculated to terrify landowners into abandoning their holdings.
18  They began to talk; their conversation eased me completely, it was rather calculated to weary than enrage a listener.
19  His words, though not treasonous in themselves, were calculated to arouse thoughts of sedition.
20  Her conventional suit was one calculated to appeal to the conservative judges.
21  In cases where no data were available, the most probable structure of a molecule was calculated using molecular mechanics.
22  Two positive predictive values were calculated.
23  As sunrise and sunset are calculated from the leading and trailing edges of the Sun, and not the center; this slightly increases the duration of "day" relative to "night."
24  An international court ruled that Russia owes shareholders of the now-defunct oil giant Yukos more than $50 billion for what it described as the Kremlin's "devious and calculated expropriation" of assets designed to bankrupt the firm.
25  The problem with all these calculations is they assume a homogenous chemical mantle.
26  We can exclude the possibility of total loss from our calculations.
27  Dee looked at the bill and made some rapid calculations.
28  My brain swam at the complexity of the calculations.
29  The software allows you to define the network structure and performs the calculations and updates.
30  These new measurements mean that I'll have to redo the calculations.