Meaning of calculus in English

Conversely, given the force at every point, and the initial position and velocity, the rules of the integral calculus assist us in calculating the position and velocity of the body at any future time.
He creates mathematics, and discovers that the phenomena of the heavens and the earth are ruled according to the laws of the calculus.
Naturally the student who is equipped with these subjects as well as with the calculus will be a little more mature, and may be expected to follow the course all the more easily.
Then, still others divide and subdivide, and science becomes the sciences, and mathematics becomes arithmetic, and algebra, and geometry, and trigonometry, and calculus, and astronomy.

(Definition of calculus from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

calculus | American Dictionary

calculus

noun [ U ]

/ˈkæl·kjə·ləs/

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mathematics

the mathematical study of continually changing values

mathematics

the mathematical study of continually changing values

(Definition of calculus from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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The sequent calculus we consider just has implication, no structural rules and a changed axiom.

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The latter is a sequent calculus that needs none of the standard structural rules of weakening, contraction or cut.

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In their analysis, they used motor calculus and the concept of virtual work coefficient.

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Because of this extension, the naive adaptation of labelled bisimulations from the pi calculus is too strong to be useful for the purposes of verification.

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A weak head reduction relation is defined for the expressions of the calculus.

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Focusing on simple cognitive heuristics does not make the application of rational standards derived from formal calculi unnecessary.

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This requirement is essential in the simply typed calculus for obtaining non-trivial inequalities.

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The understanding of the proof-theoretic structure of a logic demands more than simply describing its sequent calculus.

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Each set of equivalence classes is called a limited model of simply typed lambda calculus.

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This is in contrast to the simply typed lambda calculus and its extensions, which ignore type information at runtime.

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