Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To calculate or reckon in advance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To calculate in advance.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

pre- +‎ calculate

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Examples

  • There's no reliable way to precalculate the relative positions of the planets at the time the vehicle achieves orbit.

    Spin 2005

  • It's hard to imagine in 2010 an April without Tiger among the azaleas, but at the same time it creates a kind of severe re-entry stunt you'd need NASA to precalculate.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • When you can't afford to compute something on the fly, it is time to precalculate ...

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • To precalculate the closing balances in the relational database, we create a new table to hold the calculated values, Fact_GL_CB, the is similar to the previous fact-table but contains field Amount_CB instead of Amount and also has an extra Date-file (not really necessary, but simplifies a bit):

    SQLServerCentral.com Articles 2009

  • Step by step how to precalculate closing balances and build a cube for our Balance Sheet

    SQLServerCentral.com Articles 2009

  • My problem is that I have to precalculate variables, then set up the page, filled with those variables and then retrieve them, seemingly using the same php file for this.

    phpBB.com 2009

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