as in to calculate
to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations
for the test we were required to compute the answers without using a calculator
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Recent Examples of compute
Investigating protein folding with the world’s hottest engine The scientists also believe their Paul Trap could provide a new, efficient means for computing how proteins fold.
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Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
The Amazon cloud computing company, which is known as AWS and which supports wide swaths of the publicly available internet, issued early on Monday a series of updates on an apparent issue.
—Jessica Gorman, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2025
Quantum-computing playthings IonQ and Rigetti Computing both fell more than 20% in two days after monstrous rallies, and Robinhood shares have lost 15% in six trading days.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
In other words, what appears to be emergent to us today, with our present limitations of what is within our power to compute, may someday in the future be describable in purely reductionist terms.
—Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
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Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
The Amazon cloud computing company, which is known as AWS and which supports wide swaths of the publicly available internet, issued early on Monday a series of updates on an apparent issue.
—Jessica Gorman, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2025
Quantum-computing playthings IonQ and Rigetti Computing both fell more than 20% in two days after monstrous rallies, and Robinhood shares have lost 15% in six trading days.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
In other words, what appears to be emergent to us today, with our present limitations of what is within our power to compute, may someday in the future be describable in purely reductionist terms.
—Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for compute
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Using Zumper for rent prices, the salary needed to afford a typical studio apartment in each city was calculated.—
Celia Fernandez,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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Part-time students are calculated on partial basis, leading to fewer students reported than when using a total headcount.—
Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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The two-point try was unsuccessful, but at 17-12, the game was within reach if Houston could figure something out on defense.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Liberation seems to have figured, too, in Elizabeth McCracken’s novel about her mother, The Hero of This Book.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Compute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compute. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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