Calculate and Set

Calculate

Calculate verb - To determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations.

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Set and calculate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Set" instead a verb "Calculate".

Set verb - To come to an agreement or decision concerning the details of.

Usage example: finally set some plans for the luncheon

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Calculate and set are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Calculate" instead a verb "Set".

Nearby Words: setup, setting

In the Star Trek: New Frontier novels helmsman Mark McHenry is very good at quickly calculating trajectories and other math in his head, so he spends most of his time looking bored and not doing anything, then at the last minute he'll calculate and set the coordinates, then go back to being bored.

Source: Last Second Showoff
It's been suggested that we can actually calculate the exact historical dates on which Tolkien set his tales from the moon's phases.

Source: Weird Moon
In the Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon" two planets are at war with each other, but have set up a system where, instead, of actually dropping nuclear bombs on each other, they have computers calculate how many people would be killed if one of them dropped a bomb on another.

Source: Dystopian Edict

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