calculus
Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
Other meanings
Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject.
“I took calculus in high school.”
A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
A kind of
- rock
Kinds of calculus
- bladder stone
- kidney stone
- salivary calculus
Related words
- bystander-calculus model
- calculus of moving surfaces
- calculus of variations
- dental calculus
- differential calculus
- felicific calculus
- finite-difference calculus
- fractional calculus
- hedonic calculus
- hedonistic calculus
- infinitesimal calculus
- integral calculus
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This definition is adapted from “calculus” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.