Calculation vs. Guess — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Calculation and Guess
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Calculation
A calculation is a deliberate process that transforms one or more inputs into one or more results. The term is used in a variety of senses, from the very definite arithmetical calculation of using an algorithm, to the vague heuristics of calculating a strategy in a competition, or calculating the chance of a successful relationship between two people.
Guess
To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information.
Calculation
The act, process, or result of calculating.
Guess
To assume, presume, or assert (a fact) without sufficient information.
Calculation
An estimate based on probabilities.
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Guess
To form a correct estimate or conjecture of
Guessed the answer.
Calculation
Careful, often cunning estimation and planning of likely outcomes, especially to advance one's own interests.
Guess
To suppose; think
I guess he was wrong.
Calculation
The act or process of calculating.
Guess
To make an estimate or conjecture
We could only guess at her motives.
Calculation
The result of calculating.
Guess
To estimate or conjecture correctly.
Calculation
(countable) Reckoning, estimate.
By my calculation, we should be there by midnight.
Guess
An act or instance of guessing.
Calculation
(countable) An expectation based on circumstances.
Guess
A conjecture arrived at by guessing.
Calculation
The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
Guess
To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
Calculation
The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.
The mountain is not so his calculation makes it.
Guess
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
Calculation
An expectation based on circumstances.
The lazy gossips of the port,Abhorrent of a calculation crost,Began to chafe as at a personal wrong.
Guess
To suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
Calculation
The procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
Guess
(colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
"I guess you were right." "What did he say?" "He guesses you were right."
"I guess I'll go to bed."
Calculation
Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
Guess
(obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
Calculation
Planning something carefully and intentionally;
It was the deliberation of his act that was insulting
Guess
A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
If you don't know the answer, take a guess.
Guess
To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess.
Guess
To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.
We may then guess how far it was from his design.
Of ambushed men, whom, by their arms and dress,To be Taxallan enemies I guess.
Guess
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.
Guess
To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.
Guess
To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; - followed by an objective clause.
Not all together; better far, I guess,That we do make our entrance several ways.
But in known images of life I guessThe labor greater.
Guess
To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; - with at, about, etc.
This is the place, as well as I may guess.
Guess
An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.
A poet must confessHis art 's like physic - but a happy guess.
Guess
A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
Guess
An estimate based on little or no information
Guess
Expect, believe, or suppose;
I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel
I thought to find her in a bad state
He didn't think to find her in the kitchen
I guess she is angry at me for standing her up
Guess
Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation;
I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again
I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong
Guess
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time);
I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds
Guess
Guess correctly; solve by guessing;
He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize
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