Definition of "calculates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate. (verb)

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• ""The setup is familiar, but Arvin calculates everything - the mystery, the office politics, the anti-death-penalty demonstrations, the race riots, the fiendishly escalating threats - so neatly that the whole package is an offer you can't refuse.""
• "Yet Putin calculates that he can mock us because, as his defence minister cheerfully puts it: "The west keeps buying our energy.""
• "For his part, Berzin calculates that just one 1,000 megawatt power plant using his system could produce more than 40 million gallons of biodiesel and 50 million gallons of ethanol a year."