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Calculable

adjective
1.
Capable of being calculated or estimated.  "Calculable odds"





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"Calculable" Quotes from Famous Books



... fruitless attack delivered by Lord Kitchener on the Paardeberg laager on February 18th. In one case time was working against Lord Methuen, and threatening to exhaust the endurance of Kimberley; in the other case time was working with Lord Kitchener, limiting the resistance of Cronje to a calculable number of days and hours. In one case there was a small force which, owing to the nature of its composition, could only be used in one way; in the other case there was a large and splendidly-assorted force, which gave opportunity for ...
— The Relief of Mafeking • Filson Young
... observed facts. But is not character, with which Ethics confessedly deals, just that concerning which no definite conclusions can be predicted? Is not conduct, dependent as it is on the human will, just the element in man which cannot be explained as the resultant of calculable forces? If the will is free, and is the chief factor in the moulding of life, then you cannot forecast what line conduct will take or predict what shape character will assume. The whole conception of Ethics as a science must, it ...
— Christianity and Ethics - A Handbook of Christian Ethics • Archibald B. C. Alexander


Words linked to "Calculable" :   enumerable, determinable, estimable, numerable, calculate, incalculable, countable, computable, denumerable


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