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# calcul — French to English

How French *calcul* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: calcul (51 224), calcule (2 625), calcules (2), calculs (10 175). By style: everyday 52 · literary 6 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 316 · legal and administrative 27 282 · UN documents 35 369.

## calculation

Used about 46 571 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 917 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 202 · UN documents ≈ 23 417). Forms: calculate, calculated, calculating, calculation, calculations. Meaning: [calculation in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/calculation/).

- Ce **calcul** est incorrect.
  This **calculation** is incorrect.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7742663](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7742663) [\#8027050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8027050))

- —**Calcule**, mon garçon.
  "Well, do **calculate**, my boy."
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1614)

- C’est ici la sagesse. Que celui qui a de l’intelligence **calcule** le nombre de la bête. Car c’est un nombre d’homme, et son nombre est six cent soixante-six.
  Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him **calculate** the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 13:18)

- Ce serait un mauvais **calcul**.
  That would be a bad **calculation**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1782906)

- **Calcul** des valeurs moyennes
  **Calculation** of mean values
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1764121)

## value

Used about 976 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 976). Meaning: [value in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/value/).

- Le résultat de ces **calculs** est résumé dans le tableau ci-après.
  The **value** of those liabilities is summarized in the table below.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25515485)

- Pour déterminer la vitesse de l &apos; air, on **calcule** la valeur moyenne à partir d &apos; un certain nombre de points de mesure ainsi choisis:
  The above mentioned air velocity shall be determined as an averaged **value** of a number of measuring points which
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 24787687)

- Pour déterminer la vitesse de l &apos; air, on **calcule** la valeur moyenne à partir d &apos; un certain nombre de points de mesure ainsi déterminés:
  The above mentioned air velocity shall be determined as an averaged **value** of a number of measuring points which:
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 19153527)

- S &apos; ils s &apos; inscrivent tous deux à l &apos; intérieur d &apos; une fourchette définie, le système **calcule** une valeur moyenne et obtient de la sorte un compromis.
  If they are within a defined bandwidth, the system calculates a mean **value** in order to reach a settlement.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 8430030)

## used

Used about 631 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 11 · legal and administrative ≈ 376 · UN documents ≈ 244). Meaning: [used in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/used/).

- Six, une étude des techniques utilisées pour le **calcul** du risque et du ratio de solvabilité des entreprises, l'accent étant mis sur les PME.
  Sixth, a study on the techniques **used** to assess both risk and the credit rating of companies, with special reference to SMEs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1885672)

- La banque **calcule** également le montant total utilisé estimé (ci-après le «montant total utilisé estimé»).
  The bank also calculates the estimated total **used** amount (the ‘estimated total used amount’).
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3873706)

- Ces dispositifs, également appelés éclateurs à étincelle déclenchés, sont des articles à double usage, communément utilisés dans les lithotriteurs pour dissoudre les **calculs** rénaux au moyen de signaux électroniques.
  The devices, known as triggered spark gaps, are dual-use items which are commonly **used** in lithotripters to dissolve kidney stone through the use of electronic signals.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 23248844)

- À partir des valeurs affichées par chaque dynamomètre, enregistrées simultanément, on **calcule** la masse totale du véhicule et la position du centre de gravité.
  The individual load-cell readings shall be noted simultaneously and shall be **used** to check the total vehicle mass and centre of gravity position.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5486798)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Je comprends finalement les principes de base du **calcul**.
  I finally understand the basic principles of calculus.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#516199](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/516199) [\#545733](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/545733))

- Je peux faire le **calcul**.
  I can do the math.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2300677](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2300677) [\#13483232](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13483232))

- Vous êtes trop jeunes pour savoir ce qu'est une règle à **calcul**.
  You're too young to know what a slide rule is.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#1127426](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1127426) [\#1128985](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1128985))

## Grammar

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