compute
IPA: kʌmpjˈut
noun
- (chiefly cloud computing, informal) Computational processing power.
verb
- (transitive) To reckon, calculate.
- (intransitive, informal) To make sense. (commonly used in mimicry of a science fictional robot and spoken in a robotic voice; most frequently in negative constructs)
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Examples of "compute" in Sentences
- Ian is a computer hacker.
- Browse for the file on the computer.
- Compute the circumference of the circle.
- It was the introduction of the mini computer.
- It was the predecessor to the Colossus computer.
- The number of unfit pilots was recorded by the computer.
- The tax is computed based on the 'value' of the property.
- Two provisional values for the next iterate are computed.
- The problem is not to compute the roots from the correct values.
- We’ll be able to compute from the knowledge that our civilization has accumulated.
- Obviously the one thing that Wolfy can't compute is how to have sufficient servers to handle it's user load. palmerkun jthatch
- What doesn’t quite compute is that the robot goes to all this trouble to look and breath like a sex kitten, but the speech is very mechanical in some parts.
- 103 His malady increased, and after a dysentery which continued three days, he expired in the palace of Ravenna, in the thirty-third, or, if we compute from the invasion of Italy, in the thirty-seventh year of his reign.
- You'll probably find (after you spend some time here) that most of us started in Linux because we were looking for a better way to "compute" - we started dual-booting Windows and Linux, but started booting the Linux side more and more often, simply because we can use our machines rather than just having to maintain them all the time.
- Senator DEBBIE STABENOW (Democrat, Michigan): At a time when people are losing their jobs, working part-time jobs, seeing their wages go down, and the incomes of the wealthiest 400 people in the country have gone up about 400 percent in the last decade and a half and their tax rates have been cut in half, for the majority of Americans that doesn't compute, that is just not fair.
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