Calculating /(?)/

Cal·cu·la·ting

Calculating

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.
  2. Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition.

Phrases & Compounds
Calculating machine
a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.

Calculating

n.
  1. The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.