Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.(verb)
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Use "calculates" in a sentence
""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."