adjective.
Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.
adjective.
Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming.
adjective.
a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.
noun.
The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.