figuring

Definition

Calculation.

Example Sentences

• "Alternative figurings may be available for interpreting the everyday, and alternative ways of figuring systems of privilege may be developed in contestations over social arrangements."
• "By my figuring, he couldn't have been much over forty, but sagging, bleached-out skin and a gray to balding head made him look sixty."
• "We must remember, however, that all these figurings are written with reference to the tonic signature."