a. [f. L. calculā-re or F. calcul-er to calculate: see -ABLE, -BLE. So mod.F. calculable.] Capable of being calculated; that may be reckoned, measured or computed.
a. 1734. North, Lives, II. 182. Eclipses … being regular and calculable.
1809–10. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 103. Incapable of producing any regular, continuous, and calculable effect.
1829. I. Taylor, Enthus., vi. (1867), 113. The connexion of physical causes and effects is known and calculable.
1865. Sat. Rev., 25 March, 332/2. There is always a calculable risk of a vacancy.
b. Of a person: Such that his action in given circumstances can be reckoned upon and estimated.
1865. Pall Mall Gaz., 1 May, 2/2. He [Gladstone] is the least consistent, reliable, and calculable of public men.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., 222. He was exactly the man to feel the utmost piquancy in a girl whom he had not found quite calculable.
