Compute

Word COMPUTE
Character 7
Hyphenation com pute
Pronunciations /kəmˈpjuːt/

Definitions and meanings of "Compute"

What do we mean by compute?

To determine by mathematics, especially by numerical methods: synonym: calculate. intransitive verb

To determine by the use of a computer. intransitive verb

To determine an amount or number. intransitive verb

To use a computer. intransitive verb

To be reasonable, plausible, or consistent; make sense. intransitive verb

Computation. noun

To determine by calculation; count; reckon; calculate: as, to compute the distance of the moon from the earth.

Synonyms Reckon, Count, etc. See calculate.

To reckon; count.

Computation. noun

Computation. noun

To determine by calculation; to reckon; to count. transitive verb

To reckon or calculate. verb

To make sense. verb

Make a mathematical calculation or computation verb

Computational power

The act of talking, gaming, tumblring, or any other internet activity using a computer Urban Dictionary

Similar to air conditioners. Works fine until you open up windows. Urban Dictionary

Dealing with computers as in Desktops, laptops, printers, and other peripherals. Urban Dictionary

A machine consisting of a processing unit, some form of memory, and peripheral devices for input and output. Used almost exclusively for updating Adobe Flash, updating Adobe PDF Reader, updating Java, and updating iTunes. Urban Dictionary

The most useful and most frustrating thing any human being will ever work with. Urban Dictionary

The answer to every single question. Urban Dictionary

Somebody who spends the majority of their free time on their computer. May also be used to describe the computer neophyte. Urban Dictionary

A tool that is supposed to save time but intead wastes time. Urban Dictionary

A tool, carefully designed to make life frustrating and difficult for people who cannot properly use it. Urban Dictionary

What you are on now Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Compute

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The word "compute" in example sentences

Obviously the one thing that Wolfy can't compute is how to have sufficient servers to handle it's user load. palmerkun jthatch ❋ Unknown (2009)

You'll probably find (after you spend some time here) that most of us started in Linux because we were looking for a better way to "compute" - we started dual-booting Windows and Linux, but started booting the Linux side more and more often, simply because we can use our machines rather than just having to maintain them all the time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

103 His malady increased, and after a dysentery which continued three days, he expired in the palace of Ravenna, in the thirty-third, or, if we compute from the invasion of Italy, in the thirty-seventh year of his reign. ❋ Unknown (1206)

We’ll be able to compute from the knowledge that our civilization has accumulated. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What doesn’t quite compute is that the robot goes to all this trouble to look and breath like a sex kitten, but the speech is very mechanical in some parts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Senator DEBBIE STABENOW (Democrat, Michigan): At a time when people are losing their jobs, working part-time jobs, seeing their wages go down, and the incomes of the wealthiest 400 people in the country have gone up about 400 percent in the last decade and a half and their tax rates have been cut in half, for the majority of Americans that doesn't compute, that is just not fair. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And to compute is to collect the sum of many things added together at the same time, or to know the remainder when one thing has been taken from another. ❋ Duncan, Stewart (2009)

In fact, they are starting to behave like the device that neurons use to compute, which is called an ion channel. ❋ Kwabena Boahen (2007)

If we are specially referring to a compute instance shares much of the same characteristics of the server it would run if it were on premises. ❋ Drmcghee (2011)

"At a time when people are losing their jobs, working part-time jobs, seeing their wages go down, and the incomes of the wealthiest 400 people in the country have gone up about 400 percent in the last decade and a half and their tax rates have been cut in half, for the majority of Americans, that doesn't compute, that is just not fair," the Michigan Democrat said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Amazon's sky-high EC2 service has experienced a significant increase in network latency in recent days, according to data from two separate companies running widely-used management tools in tandem with the service. service for overseeing the use of Amazon EC2 and other so-called compute clouds - first noticed an Amazon latency spike around Christmas time, and the problem has grown steadily over the past few weeks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Undoubtedly the biggest change is the introduction of Direct Compute, also known as the compute shader. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eucalyptus Systems - the fledgling open source outfit that mimics Amazon's so-called compute cloud inside private data centers - has announced its first commercial product. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is a pre-Turing sense in which "compute" just means figure out. ❋ Chomsky, Noam (2002)

me: hey [gabby], [wanna] compute [after school] today? gabby: sure! i love to compute, its what im best at! ❋ Xoxmissy247 (2012)

On [second thought], [air] conditioners are better than [computers]. ❋ SquirrelMoose (2008)

We have [a lot] of [computical] [equipment]. ❋ RedHawkTech (2009)

I have a lot of work to do on the computer today, my [Adobe] [PDF] Reader hasn't been updated since last night and my [Java] is nearly three days old! ❋ Flamberge (2013)

The computer [crashed] again. [I lost] three [thousand] lines of code. ❋ Mystery Man (2003)

[Billy]: [How do] they [make cheese]? Bob: Computers. ❋ LizzanceRopierre (2005)

{From a [TV spot] for portable generators}: Got a new [incinerator], Got a cool refrigerator, [Smell ya later] computator WORK! HOME!! PLAY!!! ❋ Telephony (2014)

1. [Viruses] 2. Bugs 3. Crashes 4. [Spyware] 5. [Urbandictionary.com] :) ❋ Why Do I Keep Coming Here? (2003)

Anyone who says computers are "meant to save time but [waste time]" obviously can't use them. Of course they save time. I saved two hours writing my essay by copying and [pasting] bits of other [essays] I found on the internet. ❋ David G. S. (2007)

[You are] on the [computer] [now] ❋ Charlie Mulligan (2004)

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