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Meanings of calculus in English
A hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body.
Synonyms
Examples for "concretion"
Examples for "concretion"
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He found the secluded recess, and the ancient concretion he had seen before.
2
These are the shape and motions of the fluid which gives the calcareous concretion.
3
A concretion of rounded quartz pebbles, cemented by ferruginous matter, apparently of recent formation.
4
For Coryphene, they brought a chair carved from a single concretion of blood coral.
5
Sixteen years before the concretion was passed she was known to have swallowed a tooth.
Usage of calculus in English
1
That means we have to change the calculus of cost versus benefit.
2
Of course you could do this analytically using a bit of calculus.
3
Schenck mentions a calculus perforating the bladder and lodging in the groin.
4
The modern calculus of profit and loss probably meant nothing to Ivan.
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Moreover, calculus around operational risk is necessarily based on subjective management judgement.
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It's just that we make decisions based on a particular stubborn calculus.
7
One must also keep in mind renal calculus in determining bowel diseases.
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Zamora said the meeting shows that the calculus around robusta is changing.
9
How will the extent of Iranian casualties change the calculus in Tehran?
10
But the shooting down of the Malaysian airline changed the political calculus.
11
Even calculus and geometry represent the need for something beyond the individual.
12
The Ephemerides speaks of a calculus coming away with the menstrual fluid.
13
Scores on calculus midterms shot up by an average of fifteen points.
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With a U.S. election due in November, the calculus may have changed.
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Nobody else could make calculus even remotely interesting, I'm sure of it.
16
I did learn calculus, but I can't remember how to do it.
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Translations for calculus
Russian
Spanish
Calculus through the time
Calculus across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common