How to Use compute in a Sentence

compute

verb
  • When computing such systems, there are hundreds, sometimes thousands of decisions to be made, Thurner explains.
    Alicia Prager, Quartz, 28 June 2019
  • Students in computing related fields need cross-training in social sciences and the humanities.
    Jessica Rosenworcel, WIRED, 26 June 2019
  • Moore’s law, the famous guideline stating (roughly) that computing power doubles every two years, is exponential.
    Kevin Hartnett, Scientific American, 21 June 2019
  • In our review of the Asus Zenbook 14, our expert applauded the thin, lightweight build and long battery life, which are paramount for computing on the go.
    Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Rather, the team had to compute the probability of finding upper and lower paths over a subset of these outcomes — much as polls sample from a subset of voters to predict the result of an election.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Google is making another acquisition for its cloud-computing business that competes with Amazon.com Inc.
    Shira Ovide, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
  • Last Thursday, Nate Taggart stepped down as chief of another cloud computing company, Stackery.
    Mike Rogoway, oregonlive.com, 1 July 2019
  • Just does not compute in my mind of what that looks like.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • The concept of a ‘revenge game’ does not compute for these guys.
    oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The software will ask you simple questions and compute all the math for you.
    Kristen Doerer, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Thin and lightweight, the LG Gram Pro is the perfect choice for computing on the go.
    PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The thresholds computed in this way are all less than 3, so the triples relate to the part of the spectrum below 3.
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The program that does the detection would compute a value based on the text and be able to compare that to a stored key.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • This gives the iPad Pro a greater ability to compute AI tasks on-device.
    Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
  • The next task was to figure out how to compute the Berry curvature using QAC.
    Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • There are seven ways to demonstrate that 2% doesn’t compute.
    Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
  • More analogies come to mind, right away, as my brain tries to compute what is happening.
    The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Yes, the Big 12 has been anointed as the best men’s basketball conference in the land by those who talk and those who compute.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The thresholds in the Markov spectrum come from a number c in this sequence by computing sqrt(9 - 4/c^2).
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Servers leave them on tables at meal’s end, and customers insert cards, compute tips and sign.
    Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • The thought bloomed that something had happened to his sister but still wouldn’t fully compute in Phillips' mind.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
  • But Winter Olympics sports not named hockey just don’t compute.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022
  • By measuring the motions of stars, astronomers hope to compute the orbits of stars around the galaxy—and therefore, the structure of the Milky Way.
    H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Any of these can be in local hardware or take advantage of cloud compute from Azure.
    Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 24 May 2022
  • Not anytime in the near future, and for two reasons, one of which is computing power.
    Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Theft of resources: This refers to the unauthorized use of computing resources.
    Dan Branco, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The amount of debt gets added to the city’s operating tax rate to compute a homeowner’s final city tax bill.
    Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Before every takeoff, the pilots compute the weight and balance of the airplane.
    John Cox, USA TODAY, 6 June 2020
  • Emphasis was placed on learning how to read, write, compute, and pass tests in English.
    Kristina Rizga, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2020

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