as in calculation
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
we were able to divide the dinner bill fairly with a little computation
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Recent Examples of computation
Amazon makes most of its money providing computations and storage in the cloud.
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
Calibration ensures that quantum processors are correctly tuned, while decoding helps identify and correct errors that occur during computation.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Apr. 2026
Since the research center gained attention in 2022 studying the amount of computation power leading AI companies used to train their models, Epoch AI has expanded to study the price of AI services, the construction of data centers around the world and the types of chips used to develop AI models.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
Viewed through this lens, consciousness is not a computation, an input-output process, or a function.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
Calibration ensures that quantum processors are correctly tuned, while decoding helps identify and correct errors that occur during computation.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Apr. 2026
Since the research center gained attention in 2022 studying the amount of computation power leading AI companies used to train their models, Epoch AI has expanded to study the price of AI services, the construction of data centers around the world and the types of chips used to develop AI models.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
Viewed through this lens, consciousness is not a computation, an input-output process, or a function.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for computation
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And that's when their calculations revealed that these animals were probably gargantuan — well larger than the giant Pacific octopus, today's biggest member of the family whose arm span often exceeds 13 feet.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2026
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The team evaluated the size of the ancient octopuses using allometric calculation—a method that used the proportional growth rates of modern, long-bodied finned octopuses to extrapolate the size of their extinct relatives.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2026
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Zevik Glidai, a 78-year-old math teacher and volunteer ambulance driver, discovered coils of the translucent fiber-optic cables surrounding a drone that crashed into his backyard in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on April 13.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Burton brought in a stethoscope, a scale, and a thermometer so that children could use the numbers for a math activity and demystify doctors’ visits.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Apr. 2026
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The arithmetic does not come close to closing a gap of this magnitude even under the most optimistic assumptions.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
13 Apr. 2026
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That figure is the cold arithmetic of economic gravity.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Computation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/computation. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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