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compute Definition

com·pute (kəm pyo̵̅o̅t′)

transitive verb -·put′ed, -·put′·ing

  1. to determine (a number, amount, etc.) by arithmetic; calculate
  2. to determine or calculate by using a computer

Etymology: L computare < com-, with + putare, to reckon, orig., to prune: see pure

intransitive verb

  1. to determine a number, amount, etc.
  2. to use a computer
  3. Informal to make sense; seem reasonable; add up an explanation that does not compute

noun

computation: chiefly in the phrase beyond compute

compute Related Forms
com·put′·abil′·ity noun com·put′·able adjective
compute Synonyms

compute

v.

calculate, reckon, figure, measure; see calculate 1, count, estimate 1. See syn. study at calculate.

compute Usage Examples

Object

  • tomography: Spiral computed tomography of the pancreas showed a 3 x 2.5 cm mass in the region of the tail of the pancreas.
  • eigenvalue: The compute eigenvalues are stored in the member ' W ' .
  • hypocentre: The ISC will use S times to compute hypocentres for events from January 2001.
  • coefficient: This algorithm computes coefficients which require only the correlations between the AR parameters of the specified MV order.
  • probability: Finally we may simply observe the system as a " black box " where we compute the probability of failure from past experience.
  • intersection: How do I compute the intersection of two arrays?

Preposition: as

  • difference: Net income will be computed as the difference between the assessable income and the deductible expenses.

Modifies a noun

  • node: The only reason you would log into a compute node is to clean up old scratch files.
  • cluster: Although compute clusters can, by their nature, include a failover capability.
  • server: The remote compute server is available to any undergraduate or MSc student in the Engineering Faculty but you must register to use the service.

Modifying Another Word

  • recursively: The multiplicities of the non-dominant weights are computed recursively using a method, based on Weyl reflections, of finding equivalent dominant weights.
  • efficiently: This can be used to efficiently compute the digests of strings that share a common initial substring.
  • dynamically: These are links which are dynamically computed when requested.
  • automatically: A color based classifier is automatically computed from the control cells.
  • correctly: Restrictions: ( a ) In order to correctly compute the Wilson lines, the lattice must have an even length.
  • explicitly: More precisely: the set of those prime numbers has positive density, which can be written down and computed explicitly.

Used with why or when

  • where: Computing Where to get access, information etc. See Library information here.
  • when: These are links which are dynamically computed when requested.

Present participle complement

  • accord: The conditional probabilities are computed according to an initial set of promising solutions.

Preposition: in

  • sentence: The length is computed in sentences rather than words and characters, so sometimes the extracts might seem long.