COMPUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compute mean? 

• COMPUTE (verb)
  The verb COMPUTE has 1 sense:

1. make a mathematical calculation or computation

  Familiarity information: COMPUTE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPUTE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they compute    ... he / she / it computes   
Past simple: computed   
Past participle: computed   
-ing form: computing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a mathematical calculation or computation

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out

Hypernyms (to "compute" is one way to...):

reason (think logically)

Verb group:

work out (be calculated)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compute"):

multiply (combine by multiplication)

resolve; solve (find the solution)

capitalise; capitalize (compute the present value of a business or an income)

budget (make a budget)

approximate; estimate; gauge; guess; judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

survey (plot a map of (land))

integrate (calculate the integral of; calculate by integration)

differentiate (calculate a derivative; take the derivative)

extrapolate; interpolate (estimate the value of)

divide; fraction (perform a division)

quantise; quantize (apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor)

deduct; subtract; take off (make a subtraction)

add; add together (make an addition by combining numbers)

factor; factor in; factor out (resolve into factors)

average; average out (compute the average of)

recalculate (calculate anew)

miscalculate; misestimate (calculate incorrectly)

prorate (divide or assess proportionally)

process (perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information)

extract (calculate the root of a number)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

computation (the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods)

computation (problem solving that involves numbers or quantities)

computer (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

computer (an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines))

 Context examples 

The researchers are inventing new materials that are small, fast, and can perform in a multitude of ways, such as mimicking neurons in the brain, computing with magnets, and calculating with quantum mechanics.

(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)

The numerical sum between zero and ten that is computed from individual values of zero to two that are assigned to five different areas of interest in newborn screenings.

(Apgar Score, NCI Thesaurus)

Cone beam computed tomography that includes megavoltage images.

(Megavoltage Cone Beam Computed Tomography, NCI Thesaurus)

The product of the number of computed tomography (CT) scans multiplied by the scan width (i.e., total scan length).

(Dose Length Product, NCI Thesaurus)

This was a prospective, observational study which included 545 adult men who underwent multi-slice computed tomography (CT) coronary angiography for suspected coronary artery disease.

(Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The latter are measured by means of proton-emission tomography combined with computed tomography (using a radiopharmaceutical known as 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose).

(Increasing the level of physical activity is found not to improve the functioning of brown adipose tissue, University of Granada)

Standard computing equipment typically have separate processing and memory units that constantly exchange data.

(Transistor that mimics neurons developed, SciDev.Net)

MRI makes better images of organs and soft tissue than other scanning techniques, such as computed tomography (CT) or x-ray.

(MRI, NCI Dictionary)

Also called computed tomography angiography and CT angiography.

(CTA, NCI Dictionary)

A computing method involving many similar individual, yet randomly differing, calculations.

(Monte Carlo Method, NCI Thesaurus)