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- noun A
calculation performed in advance.
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Examples
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He knew, not out of cleverness or precalculation, that the man Joseph Cotten came to Vienna to find was not dead at all, but alive; he remembered Orson Welles in the doorway with the cat at his feet, and in the ferris wheel musing over the insignificance of the people below him, and running through the sewers with the police at his heels.
Days Between Stations Steve Erickson 1985
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He knew, not out of cleverness or precalculation, that the man Joseph Cotten came to Vienna to find was not dead at all, but alive; he remembered Orson Welles in the doorway with the cat at his feet, and in the ferris wheel musing over the insignificance of the people below him, and running through the sewers with the police at his heels.
Days Between Stations Steve Erickson 1985
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The premeditation of planned action becomes commercial precalculation of expected costs and expected proceeds.
LewRockwell.com 2009
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