- a method of calculation, especially one of several highly systematic methods of treating problems by a special system of algebraic notations, as differential or integral calculus.
- a stone, or concretion, formed in the gallbladder, kidneys, or other parts of the body.
- a hard, yellowish to brownish-black deposit on teeth formed largely through the mineralization of dead bacteria in dental plaques by the calcium salts in salivary secretions and subgingival transudates.
- calculation; estimation or computation: the calculus of political appeal.
- a branch of mathematics, developed independently by Newton and Leibniz. Both differential calculus and integral calculus are concerned with the effect on a function of an infinitesimal change in the independent variable as it tends to zero
- any mathematical system of calculation involving the use of symbols
- an uninterpreted formal system
- a stonelike concretion of minerals and salts found in ducts or hollow organs of the body
