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If a thing is calculable, you can measure it with numbers, or you can work it out by studying the facts you have. A price can be calculable: add the parts, and you get a number. A risk can be calculable too — you may not be exact, but you can look at what you know and make a fair guess. It is a slightly formal word, more at home in school, business, and news than in a chat with friends. Though actually, people often reach for the opposite, incalculable, when they mean “so big you cannot count it,” especially for pain or loss. Calculable does not mean “likely” or “easy”; it means you can put a number, or a size, on it.
可計算的;可估量的
組成calculate (“work out with numbers”) + -able (“can be done”).
同家族的字
- calculatethe verb this adjective is built from
- incalculablethe opposite: too big, or too unclear, to measure
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
calculableadj/ˈkæl.kjə.lə.bl/
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Able to be calculated; calculatable.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。