computation

compute | American Dictionary

compute
verb[ T ]
us/kəmˈpjut/
mathematics
to calculate something using mathematics or a calculator (= a device for doing mathematical processes)

computable

adjectiveus/kəmˈpju·t̬ə·bəl/

compute | Business English

compute
verb
 formal/kəmˈpjuːt/ukus
[ T ]
to calculate something:
The government uses the household survey to compute the monthly unemployment rate.
The firm declined to discuss the deal or say how the $650,000 figure was computed.
Net asset value is computed at the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
 sth does not compute
used to say that something does not have any meaning, or does not seem possible or correct:
It can't be done, it doesn't compute.
The situation was bothering me because something about it just didn't compute.

computation

noun[ C or U ]uk /ˌkɒmpjʊˈteɪʃən/ us /ˌkɑːmpjə-/

Examples of compute

compute
They showed how to compute the performance measures in the three systems.
It computes the symbolic size of each vector expression.
Then, standard methods to compute the volume of polytopes are applied to get a symbolic cost in polynomial form.
For this reason we chose to compute numerically the normal trajectories using the following procedure.
Section 4 describes a methodology to compute preferred trajectories using answer set planning.
For each community, the relative frequency of each category was computed, using the total number of child utterances for that community as the base figure.
It is a routine exercise to check that each partial recursive function is computed by such a machine.
Another distribution of residence times, that corresponding to those particles initially in the bubble a t cycle zero, is easily computed from the former distribution.
The left introduction rules plus weakening and cut are used to compute the logical consequences of a given formula.
Increases in computing speed are beginning to make such models tractable, at least in the case of one or two dimensions.
Given only raw geometry data in the form of a mesh, it might be costly to compute the weight functions.
As already mentioned, some attributes can be very costly to compute.
In phase 4, similarities between the query vector and the corresponding par ts of all the other signals are computed.
The dissipation expression (5.9) is more difficult to compute, since explicit solutions for the flux (3.8) are not readily obtained.
We will focus on three important aspects of computing with real number: computations, semantics and proofs.
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