Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball
If you take a calculated risk, you do something which you think might be successful, although you have fully considered the possible bad consequences of your action
or forethought to accomplish a purpose; as, to use arts calculated to deceive the people
If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect. Their movements through the region were calculated to terrify landowners into abandoning their holdings
You can describe a clever or dishonest action as calculated when it is very carefully planned or arranged. Irene's cleaning the floor had been a calculated attempt to cover up her crime
Likely to produce a certain effect, whether intended or not; fitted; adapted; suited
determined by mathematical computation; "the calculated velocity of a bullet"; "a derived value"
determined by mathematical computation; "the calculated velocity of a bullet"; "a derived value" carefully thought out in advance; "a calculated insult"; "with measured irony
If you say that something is not calculated to have a particular effect, you mean that it is unlikely to have that effect. Such a statement was hardly calculated to deter future immigrants. = likely