Calculus

kal′kū-lus, n. a stone-like concretion which forms in certain parts of the body: one of the higher branches of mathematics:— pl. Calculi (kal′kū-li). — adj. Cal′culose , stony or like stone: gritty: affected with stone or with gravel.— Calculus of finite differences not merely does not consider differentials, but does not a ume continuity.— Differential calculus , a method of treating the values of ratios of differentials or the increments of quantities continually varying; Integral calculus , the summation of an infinite series of differentials. [L.— calx .]