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词组 calculate
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calculate /ˈkælkjəleɪt, ˈkælkjʊleɪt/ verb to find out how much something will cost, the amount of time, the distance, or size of something etcadverbscalculate sth exactly/precisely/accurately The computer calculates exactly how much fuel the car has used.carefully calculate We carefully calculated how much food we would need for twelve days.correctly calculate She correctly calculated the total cost to be £53.50.you can easily calculate sth You can easily calculate the number of calories in a meal using this guide.phrasescalculate sth to within a millimetre/an inch etc (=used to talk about how accurately something is calculated) Satellite tracking devices can calculate your position to within a few metres.calculate sth to the nearest centimetre/second etc (=used when something is calculated approximately, using the nearest whole amount) Calculate the amount of money to the nearest dollar.calculate sth with great accuracy/great precision This method allows us to calculate the age of rocks with great accuracy.THESAURUS: calculate work out to calculate something. Work out is less formal than calculate, and is more common in everyday English: You need to work out how much you will need to borrow. figure out also figure AmE informal to calculate an amount: We still haven’t figured out how much it’s all going to cost. | There must be a better way of figuring welfare payments. assessimpact | effect | extent | performance | progress | effectiveness | needs | damage | risk | value to decide how great the effect of something is, how good or bad something is, what the value or cost of something is etc: We need to have a better way of assessing students’ performance. | They are still assessing the damage. | The value of the paintings was assessed at $20 million. quantify formaleffect | impact | amount | cost | benefit | problem to say how big or serious something is, how effective something is, or how much something will cost: We are making progress in quantifying the effects of government policies. | It is the most reliable method for quantifying the amount of calcium in the blood. | I think it’s difficult to quantify the cost at the moment, for a variety of reasons. | How do you quantify the benefits of the treatment? | It is only now that Ministers are beginning to quantify the problem. count to find out the total number of things or people in a group by looking at each one and adding them all together: The teacher counted the children as they got on the bus. total also total up to add a number of things together to get a final number: Once the scores have been totaled, we will announce the winner. | Okay, now let’s total up who had the most points. estimate to guess an amount, price, or number as exactly as you can, based on the knowledge you have: The police department estimates that the number of violent crimes will decrease by 2%. put a figure on sth to say what you think the exact total amount or value of something is, especially when it is a lot: It’s hard to put a figure on it, but the final cost is likely to be over £225 million. | The company has refused to put a figure on its losses. project to calculate what an amount will be in the future, using the information you have now: The company projects sales of $4 million this year.different ways of calculating add to put two or more numbers together to find the total: If you add 7 and 5, you get 12. subtract/take away to reduce one number by another number. Take sth away sounds more informal than subtract: If you subtract 12 from 15, you get 3. multiply to add a number to itself a particular number of times: 4 multiplied by 10 is 40. divide to calculate how many times one number contains another number: 10 divided by 2 equals 5.
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