Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of computing.
- n. A method of computing.
- n. The result of computing.
- n. The act of operating a computer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act, process, or method of computing, counting, reckoning, or estimating; calculation: in mathematics, generally restricted to long and elaborate numerical calculations: as, the computation of an eclipse.
- n. A result of computing; the amount computed or reckoned.
- n. Synonyms Calculation, estimate, account.
Wiktionary
- n. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
- n. The result of computation; the amount computed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
- n. The result of computation; the amount computed.
- n. (Computers) The process of performing arithmetical or logical operations, on data by an electronic device.
WordNet 3.0
- n. problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
- n. the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
Examples
“I like the term computation expressions - it is the same thing as monads in Haskell or workflows in F#.”
“When we are making a transition from a world in which computation is just one element to a world in which computation is our central concept.”
Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge
“As the content width and height cannot be negative ([CSS21], section 10.2), this computation is floored at 0.”
“The fact that AI guys like yourself must be the ultimate source of evolutionary computation, is consistent with the claims of No Free Lunch (NFL) ….”
“A special, beneficial computation is applied for those years.”
“Plant cells have very few microtubules (very small E); whether they have quantum isolation and quantum computation is unknown.”
“The promise of molecular computation is that it would allow billions of calculations to occur simultaneously in a test tube.”
“Great blog featuring a series of tutorials on complexity in computation, the theoretical limits of the Turing Machine, and other bits of required knowledge for the 21st Century.”
Boing Boing: September 15, 2002 - September 21, 2002 Archives
“The universality of computation is the most profound thing in the universe," he says.”
“Since computation is absolutely independent of the "hardware" it runs on, studying it can tell us nothing about the nature or existence of that platform.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘computation’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
surface, administration, project, motion, machine, medical, vision, solid, shape, scheme, income, proceed and 205 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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My GRE
concomitant, mendacity, corollary, mandate, ascertain, exacerbate, substantiate, perennial, exemplify, hegemony, acrimonious, repertoire and 653 more...
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nuwerdna's Words
smegma, defenestration, nubile, zeitgeist, stochastic, ergodic, stability, maudlin, recursion, aversion, agent, set and 239 more...
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II
drowsy, formulaic, intermittent, scurry, abase, unwind, confide, forensic, prolific, rummage, aplomb, subtlety and 26 more...
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