Crossword-Solution: CALCULUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Calculus | n. | Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc. |
| Calculus | n. | A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “CALCULUS”
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| CONCRETION in some part of body | 1 answer |
| a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts | 1 answer |
| The study of continuously changing variables | 1 answer |
| STONE in some part of body | 1 answer |
| STONE formed within various body parts | 1 answer |
| Derivative study | 1 answer |
| Course with limits | 1 answer |
| Course in higher mathematics. | 1 answer |
| College math subject. | 1 answer |
| Academic subject whose name means "pebble" | 1 answer |
| *Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton | 1 answer |
| Advanced math class | 2 answers |
| It has its limits | 3 answers |
| Form of mathematics | 7 answers |
| Math Course | 7 answers |
| mathematics | 11 answers |
| Branch of mathematics | 15 answers |
| Tartar | 16 answers |
| Stone | 48 answers |
| DISEASE, type of | 110 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with CALCULUS (5)
Listen to me, my boy! There are a hundred and twenty thousand folk in this town, all shrieking for advice, and there isn’t a doctor who knows a rhubarb pill from a calculus.
Nevertheless, this former conception of his, when compared to that wonderful complexity of ethereal lines, colors, tints and half-tints which go to make up the modern New York girl, seemed inexpressibly simple, almost what plain arithmetic must appear to a man who has mastered calculus.
Stuff and nonsense, my boy! A man doesn’t want to talk politics to his wife, and what do you think I care for Betty’s views upon the Differential Calculus? A man wants a wife who can cook his dinner and look after his children.
Sainte-Beuve, as he grew older, came to regard all experience as a single great book, in which to study for a few years ere we go hence; and it seemed all one to him whether you should read in Chapter xx., which is the differential calculus, or in Chapter xxxix., which is hearing the band play in the gardens.
The Romans subsequently adopted the Abacus, dividing it by means of perpendicular lines or bars, and from the designation of calculus which they gave to each pebble or counter employed on the board, we have derived our English word to calculate.
Quotes with CALCULUS (3)
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some i…
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
Hey you, dragging the halo-how about a holiday in the islands of grief? Tongue is the word I wish to have with you. Your eyes are so blue they leak. Your legs are longer than a prisoner'slast night on death row. I'm filthier than the coal miner's bathtuband nastier than the breath of Charles Bukowski. You're a dirty little windshield. I'm standing behind you on the subway, hard as calculus. My breathbe sticking to your neck like graffiti. I'm sitting opposite you in the bar, …
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Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1957–2023).