compute

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In fact, they are starting to behave like the device that neurons use to compute, which is called an ion channel.

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  1. transitive verb To determine by mathematics, especially by numerical methods: computed the tax due. See Synonyms at calculate.
  2. transitive verb To determine by the use of a computer.
  3. intransitive verb To determine an amount or number.
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  • This signing does not compute, at least from a fantasy standpoint. —  MVN
  • It does not compute, and the cognitive dissonance you are suffering allows you to drift into fallacious reasoning and an unreasonable dependence upon mistaken authorities. —  Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • CC is the latest evolution and convergence of utility compute - together with web compute, and leveraging virtualisation capabilities - and as such, one can only expect it to increase utilisation rates. —  Digital Walkabout
  • White Paper: Using PCI Express as the primary system interconnect in multiroot compute, storage, communications and embedded systems News from the LiMo Foundation, NFC Forum, and Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium —  Embedded Computing Design
  • White Paper: Using PCI Express as the primary system interconnect in multiroot compute, storage, communications and embedded systems —  Embedded Computing Design
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  1. French computer, from Old French, from Latin computāre : com-, com- + putāre, to reckon; see pau-2 in Indo-European roots. N., Late Latin computus, from Latin computāre, to compute.

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  1. = French computer = Spanish Portuguese computar = Italian computare, from Latin computare, conputare, sum up, reckon, compute, from com-, together, + putare, cleanse, trim, prune, clear up, settle, adjust, reckon, count, deem, think, suppose (cf. English reckon in sense of ‘suppose’), from putus, cleansed, clear, orig. past participle, from √ *pu, purify, cleanse, later also purus, pure: see pute, pure. From Latin computare, through Old French and Middle English, comes English count, a doublet of computes: see count.
  2. from Late Latin computus, a computation, from Latin computare, compute: see compute and count, n.
 

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