Adaptation - including for instance flood defenses and water conservation - has recognizable costs and calculable benefits. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
A calculable risk. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : This map was designed so that distances by road are easily calculable. From Dictionary.com.
"History shows that men's actions are governed by some kind of calculable law.". From Wordnik.com. [A Guide to Methods and Observation in History Studies in High School Observation] Reference
Despite many such assertions there, no one has demonstrated in the least the damage that you say is "calculable" and "non-trivial.". From Wordnik.com. [One Lawsuit to Rule Them All] Reference
Probability is calculable, at least to some degree. From Wordnik.com. [David Ropeik: Getting Risk Wrong. It's not just BP. It's You and Me] Reference
Even better if there is a calculable rate of return. From Wordnik.com. [Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch] Reference
It has an easily calculable value which is handed out free. From Wordnik.com. [Ironic Ducks] Reference
In this activity, men were beyond atty mental age calculable. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
Born's rule, calculable on the basis of a system's wavefunction. From Wordnik.com. [Causal Determinism] Reference
The apartheid destruction on our sub-continent is in calculable. From Wordnik.com. [Speech on Being Released from Pollsmoor Prison] Reference
There are no calculable, because no stable, elements in the problem. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
This is no 'conspiracy theory', it's the mathematically calculable odds. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: How 'Suspicious' Plane Crashes and Assassinations Benefit the Right Wing] Reference
In their view revolution had no rational, calculable, or justifiable goal. From Wordnik.com. [REVOLUTION] Reference
Since it was still accelerating, that would increase on a calculable curve. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
This is no \'conspiracy theory\ ', it\'s the mathematically calculable odds. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: How 'Suspicious' Plane Crashes and Assassinations Benefit the Right Wing] Reference
The destruction caused by apartheid on our sub-continent is in - calculable. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson Mandela's Address to Rally in Cape Town on his Release from Prison, 11 February 1990] Reference
Sure that assuming we are in the calculable regime has no apriori justification. From Wordnik.com. [Two cheers for string theory] Reference
Nor is it a perfectly calculable endeavor that permits a delicate "balancing" of risk. From Wordnik.com. [Obama and Gates Gut the Military] Reference
That day, however, has not yet dawned, nor is the interim before its arrival calculable. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
By making colonization safe and calculable, the company catalyzed the sinification of Taiwan. From Wordnik.com. [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference
Thus, resources only have value when they generate economic or calculable environmental benefit. From Wordnik.com. [Neoclassical, institutional, and marxist approaches to the environment-economic relationship] Reference
We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
For the first time in a singularly calculable life he had become an object of genuine curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
Again, without bidding that property out on the open market, the opportunity cost isn't calculable. From Wordnik.com. [New Gridiron Has Hidden Costs] Reference
How quickly can you get up to speed on the situation or is this situation even calculable at this point?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2006] Reference
(They do not explicitly restrict talk of ˜systematic patterns™ to ones that are effectively calculable.). From Wordnik.com. [The Church-Turing Thesis] Reference
Relationships between colors and between shades of colors were clear and calculable in Harris's color system. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
Hence to give a margin of safety to cover contingencies not calculable, an excess of material must be provided. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
It also sought assurances that any risks associated with a merger were "transparent, calculable and controllable.". From Wordnik.com. [German state bank considers] Reference
It is an open question whether a completed neuroscience will employ functions that are not effectively calculable. From Wordnik.com. [The Church-Turing Thesis] Reference
Suffering, brewed in temporal or calculable measure, and mixed for mortal lips, tastes not as this suffering tasted. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Church-Turing thesis, according to which any effectively calculable function can be computed using a Turing machine. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Computing] Reference
We are talking more and more about sustainability, as an end to our oil resources is something almost calculable by now. From Wordnik.com. [Sustainability and A Planet Out of Whack « Colleen Anderson] Reference
I remember no mention of this in any of the astronomical writings, and it is as easily calculable on Earth as it is here. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
It means the war has in many respects escaped the calculable control of the American state no matter who the President is. From Wordnik.com. [Stan Goff: Commanding-in-Chief] Reference
For instance, modern capitalism is a rational mode of economic life because it depends on a calculable process of production. From Wordnik.com. [Asthmatic] Reference
The virtues he defended so rigorously did not exist as a rule in calculable or practical form, since they did nothing objective. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
It is not intelligible in the way in which changes in a deterministic system are, which in princi - ple are calculable in advance. From Wordnik.com. [DETERMINISM IN HISTORY] Reference
But Horkheimer and Adorno equate formalism with the drive to make nature calculable, and calculability is assimilated to usefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Max Horkheimer] Reference
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