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CALCULATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does calculated mean?
• CALCULATED (adjective)
The adjective CALCULATED has 1 sense:
1. carefully thought out in advance
Familiarity information: CALCULATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Carefully thought out in advance
Synonyms:
calculated; deliberate; measured
Context example:
he made a deliberate decision not to respond negatively
Similar:
intended (resulting from one's intentions)
Context examples
From the measurements of water in the exosphere, the researchers calculated that the hydrated layer has a water concentration of about 200 to 500 parts per million, or about 0.02 to 0.05 percent by weight.
(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)
A derived unit of measure for dose length product calculated by multiplying the radiation dose in milliGrays by the travel length in centimeters.
(milliGray-Centimeter, NCI Thesaurus)
They also calculated that the black hole's mass ranges from 100,000 to 1 million times the Sun's, almost as large as the central black hole of its host galaxy.
(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)
This gives it an equilibrium temperature — calculated without accounting for the additional warming effects of a possible atmosphere — of around 490 degrees Fahrenheit (254 degrees Celsius).
(Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World, NASA)
A method for detection of chromatography peaks based on the analysis of the profile of the first derivative of the signal calculated with a Savitzky-Golay filter.
(Chromint Software, NCI Thesaurus)
The current paper reports blood pressure and cardiovascular community outcomes in 94,000 adults from 21 countries based on estimated sodium and potassium intake calculated from a single fasting morning urine specimen.
(Study Shows Average Consumption of Salt Good for Heart Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The team calculated the average rate of genetic change within enterococcal species and compared genes of existing enterococci to those of related, non-enterococci bacteria.
(Enterococci may have evolved antimicrobial resistance millions of years ago, NIH)
A new study calculated how this visitor from outside our solar system fits into what we know about how planets, asteroids and comets form.
(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)
The amount calculated in the study is similar to emissions from the Arctic tundra, or emissions from all oceans combined, or the total volume of methane emitted from wild animals and termites globally.
(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)
A method of predicting mortality by weighting comorbid conditions calculated by reviewing an individual's chart.
(Charlson Comorbidity Index Chart Review Version, NCI Thesaurus)
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