What's the difference between calculate and precalculate?
Calculate
Definition:
(v. i.) To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
(v. i.) To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity.
(v. i.) To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end; as, to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people.
(v. i.) To plan; to expect; to think.
(v. i.) To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to estimate; to compute.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since MIRD Committee has not published "S" values for Tl-200 and Tl-202, these have been calculated by a computer code and are reported.
(2) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(3) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(4) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(5) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(6) Twitch-tetanus ratios were calculated and found not to be related to unit contraction time.6.
(7) The Cao-dependent Na+ efflux was half-maximally activated by [Ca2+]o = 2.0 mM in LiSW and 7.2 mM in Tris-SW; at saturating [Ca2+]o, [Ca2+]i, and [Na+]i the maximal (calculated) Cao-dependent Na+ efflux was approximately 75 pmol#cm2.s.
(8) In a series of compounds with H2-antihistaminic activity, a conformational analysis was performed based on force field calculations.
(9) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(10) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
(11) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(12) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
(13) These calculated values are compared with observed values and implications of the agreement are discussed.
(14) The aortic area (Torlin) for diseased stenotic aortic valves was calculated in 10 patients using two different methods; data obtained in preoperative cardiac catheterization and by intraoperative flowmetric and aortic and left ventricular pressure-recording measurements, and their mutual correlation was tested.
(15) It was not possible to offer all very low birthweight infants full intensive care; to make this possible, it was calculated that resources would have to increase by 26%.
(16) The values obtained are shown to be lower than those calculated for arigid pepsin globule.
(17) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
(18) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(19) From this relationship we calculated the contraction level at which pH was 6.9 (%MVC6.9).
(20) The model electron density map, calculated to a resolution of approximately 35 A, shows an unusually high protein content in the membranes.
Precalculate
Definition:
(v. t.) To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange.
Example Sentences:
(1) Satisfactory correlation has been recorded between the estimated and precalculated values of protein concentration in the plasma after plasmapheresis that enables data collection in a short cut program.
(2) The changing electrostatic environment of the protein was examined by animating precalculated frames of electrostatic field vectors with GRAMPS.
(3) It is shown that photon therapy beams can be characterized with great accuracy from a combination of precalculated Monte Carlo energy deposition kernels and dose distributions measured in a water phantom.
(4) Dosimetry is performed with the aid of sets of precalculated isodoses on transparencies placed upon the laterally taken radiograph.
(5) Using a stereotactic guide system, any point in the facial skeleton can be reached exactly, with precalculated precision, from any point outside the face.
(6) Afterwards the reconstruction is performed using the conjugate gradient method with the system matrix modified by the incorporation of these precalculated factors in order to take into account the variable geometrical system response.
(7) A strategy for providing rapid dose display involving precalculation of fractional dose tables is used.
(8) Basing on the comparison of the precalculated and estimated parameters the authors have suggested 4 mathematical models equally describing the protein-volemic relationships in the body.
(9) Algorithms were optimized for speed by such techniques as precalculation and storage of several quantities, reordering of pencil-beam and grid-point loops, selection of cut-off values for some calculated quantities, and invoking error function symmetries.
(10) By application of our own and outside literature, data equations are specified for an approximate precalculation of osmolality and pH changes due to infusion of hypertonic NaHCO3.
(11) A third algorithm decomposes each triangle further into two right triangles and utilizes the precalculated "equivalent radius" of each, to find the scatter contribution.
(12) The performance of the adaptive controller was compared to that of a fixed controller (with precalculated gas uptakes) in five animal experiments.
(13) The interproton distances derived from the nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) data are compared to the precalculated distances in the known protein structures.
(14) It is shown that an arbitrary irregular field of N vertices may be decomposed into 2N right triangular fields, each with a precalculated equivalent square.
(15) It could be useful to precalculate treatment time in TBI, for dose prescription to a specific point, provided the same source (60Co) and treatment setting (lateral irradiation; 3 m source-axis distance; reference point at thighs bifurcation, near the perineum) is used.
(16) Attenuation factors are calculated for each pixel during the projection and backprojection operations instead of using precalculated values.
(17) Digital simulation of aircraft-accident kinematics has heretofore been used almost exclusively as a design tool to explore structural load limits, precalculate decelerative forces at various cabin stations, and describe the effect of protective devices in the crash environment.
(18) The variations of the difference are revealed in a curve, and by using a precalculated table, the actual chamber depths can be found for the apparent measured depths.
(19) The stresses and strains of the moving blood pump components, such as membranes and valves, were precalculated by means of Finite-Element-Analysis (FEM).
(20) The center of the selected volume can be moved to any arbitrary location within the body by the addition of precalculated lower order gradients which are simultaneously pulsed with the high-order gradient.