Calculating The Annual Heating Costs For A 30 000 Square Foot Building

Mathematically, this involves using the absolute value of the difference between two values then dividing the result by the initial value, essentially calculating how much the initial value has changed. The meaning of CALCULATING is making calculations. How to use calculating in a sentence. If you describe someone as calculating, you disapprove of the fact that they deliberately plan to get what they want, often by hurting or harming other people. In 1623, German professor Wilhelm Schickard claimed to have invented the calculating machine. The machine could perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. (Definition of calculating from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)