Noun: calculus
| Singular | calculus |
| Plural | calculi; calculuses |
Sample Sentences
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lambda calculus
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predicate calculus
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Near-synonyms: analysis, mathematical analysis
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I took calculus in high school.
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Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies. [2015, Jaime Samour, Avian Medicine, page 297:]
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The Tory leader refused to state how many financiers he thought should end up in jail, saying: “There is not some simple calculus." [2008 December 16, “Cameron calls for bankers’ ‘day of reckoning’”, in Financial Times:]
Nouns inflected like calculus
renal calculus,
pylorus,
prolapsus,
parahippocampal gyrus,
hyperradius,
succubus,
scarabaeus,
colossus,
eucalyptus,
papyrus,
disfocus,
polypus,
phallus,
solidus,
silurus,
lenticular nucleus,
dinosaurus,
chorepiscopus,
ankylosaurus,
fusiform gyrus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. * Borrowed from Latin calculus (“a pebble or stone used as reckoning counters in abacus”), diminutive of calx (“limestone”) + -ulus.
2. * Mathematical topic is from differential calculus. See: Latin Nouns '
calculus'.