COMPUTE | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of compute in English computeverb [ T ]   formal uk /kəmˈpjuːt/ us /kəmˈpjuːt/ Add to word list Add to word list to calculate an answer or amount by using a machine: Compute the ratio of the object's height to its weight. Synonyms calculate reckon (CALCULATE) mainly UK Calculations & calculating

• aggregative
• aggregatively
• algebraic
• algebraically
• algo
• calculate
• integration
• interpolation
• inverse function
• linear equation
• mathematical
• operator
• sum
• sum total
• tally
• tally (something) up phrasal verb
• tolerance
• tot
• tot something up phrasal verb
• tot up to something phrasal verb

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computation (Definition of compute from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

compute | American Dictionary

computeverb [ T ] us /kəmˈpjut/ Add to word list Add to word list mathematics to calculate something using mathematics or a calculator (= a device for doing mathematical processes)

computable

adjective us/kəmˈpju·t̬ə·bəl/ (Definition of compute from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

compute | Business English

computeverb   formal /kəmˈpjuːt/ uk us Add to word list Add to word list [ 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-/ (Definition of compute from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of compute

compute They showed how to compute the performance measures in the three systems. From the Cambridge English Corpus It computes the symbolic size of each vector expression. From the Cambridge English Corpus Then, standard methods to compute the volume of polytopes are applied to get a symbolic cost in polynomial form. From the Cambridge English Corpus For this reason we chose to compute numerically the normal trajectories using the following procedure. From the Cambridge English Corpus Section 4 describes a methodology to compute preferred trajectories using answer set planning. From the Cambridge English Corpus 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. From the Cambridge English Corpus It is a routine exercise to check that each partial recursive function is computed by such a machine. From the Cambridge English Corpus 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. From the Cambridge English Corpus The left introduction rules plus weakening and cut are used to compute the logical consequences of a given formula. From the Cambridge English Corpus Increases in computing speed are beginning to make such models tractable, at least in the case of one or two dimensions. From the Cambridge English Corpus Given only raw geometry data in the form of a mesh, it might be costly to compute the weight functions. From the Cambridge English Corpus As already mentioned, some attributes can be very costly to compute. From the Cambridge English Corpus In phase 4, similarities between the query vector and the corresponding par ts of all the other signals are computed. From the Cambridge English Corpus We will focus on three important aspects of computing with real number: computations, semantics and proofs. From the Cambridge English Corpus The same method is used in the implementations of real functions that need to compute a limit. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of compute?

Translations of compute

in Chinese (Traditional) （用機器）計算… See more in Chinese (Simplified) （用机器）计算… See more in Spanish computar, calcular… See more in Portuguese computar, calcular… See more in French in Turkish in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Ukrainian calculer… See more hesaplamak… See more berekenen… See more (vy)počítat, odhadnout… See more beregne, udregne… See more menghitung… See more คำนวณ… See more tính toán… See more liczyć, obliczać… See more beräkna, kalkylera… See more mengira… See more berechnen… See more beregne, anslå… See more рахувати, підраховувати… See more Need a translator?

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