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  1. noun Pathology An abnormal concretion in the body, usually formed of mineral salts and found in the gallbladder, kidney, or urinary bladder, for example.
  2. noun Dentistry See tartar.
  3. noun Mathematics The branch of mathematics that deals with limits and the differentiation and integration of functions of one or more variables.

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  • And you're saying that - so you're saying that you have the same - that the calculus is the same in this case? —  MediaBloodhound
  • After four rounds of rip-roaring calculus, a phrase I never thought of writing in public, only one integrator remains. —  MIT Admissions
  • Leonhard Euler is the only notable figure among the Eighteenth-Century opponents of the Leibniz calculus who can be suspected of the competence to know with certainty that what he wrote about the calculus was a willful fraud. —  LaRouche's Latest
  • The term calculus was derived from the Latin word for small stone used for counting. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • These sites on the internet gives you the basic idea of calculus is and at the same ... —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
 

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  1. Latin, small stone used in reckoning; see calculate.

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  1. Latin, a small stone, a pebble, a stone in the bladder, a pebble used as a counter, counting, calculation, etc., diminutive of calx (calc-), a stone: see calx.
 

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/ˈkælkjuləs/
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