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
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Examples
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There's no reliable way to precalculate the relative positions of the planets at the time the vehicle achieves orbit.
Spin 2005
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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.
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When you can't afford to compute something on the fly, it is time to precalculate ...
MSDN Blogs 2009
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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):
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Step by step how to precalculate closing balances and build a cube for our Balance Sheet
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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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