calculated

3 definitions found

calculated - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Calculated \Cal"cu*la`ted\, p. p. & a.
     1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for
        computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result
        of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the
        calculated velocity of a cannon ball.
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     2. Adapted by calculation, contrivance. or forethought to
        accomplish a purpose; as, to use arts calculated to
        deceive the people; a calculated response.
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     3. Likely to produce a certain effect, whether intended or
        not; fitted; adapted; suited.
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              The only danger that attends multiplicity of
              publication is, that some of them may be calculated
              to injure rather than benefit society. --Goldsmith.
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              The minister, on the other hand, had never gone
              through an experience calculated to lead him beyond
              the scope of generally received laws. --Hawthorne.
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calculated - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  calculated
      adj 1: carefully thought out in advance; "a calculated insult";
             "with measured irony" [syn: deliberate, calculated,
             measured]

calculated - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "calculated":
     adapted, adjusted, advised, aimed, aimed at, arranged, blueprinted,
     charted, conscious, considered, contemplated, contrived,
     deliberate, deliberated, designed, devised, envisaged, envisioned,
     figured, fit, fitted, in the works, intended, intentional, knowing,
     meant, meditated, methodized, of design, on the agenda,
     on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket,
     on the tapis, organized, planned, plotted, premeditated, prepared,
     projected, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, rationalized,
     reasoned, scheduled, schematized, set, shaped, strategetic,
     strategic, studied, suited, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical,
     teleological, thought-out, voluntary, weighed, willful, witting,
     worked out