CALCULUS Synonyms

• the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions

• the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys)

• a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body

• an increase in the density of something

• the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

• problem solving that involves numbers or quantities

• a bill for an amount due

• the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

• United States architect (1902-1978)

• building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose

• United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)

• United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

• material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

• United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

• a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry

• United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)

• an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds

• the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed

• a lack of feeling or expression or movement

• of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

• kill by throwing stones at

• remove the pits from

• a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout

• an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums

• To calculate.

• To write in code or cipher.

• Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.

• To decipher.

• A calculation or computation.

• A cipher (fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed).