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noun

computation

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

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Six example sentences with computation, each labelled with its topic.

  • One computation on the back of a receipt showed the fee would swallow every gain the fund made that year.

    Finance

  • The roof pitch came from a single computation the builder did with a folding rule and a scrap of plywood.

    Architecture

  • Every eclipse prediction in the almanac rests on a computation the astronomers repeat by hand to check the printed tables.

    Science

  • Rendering a single frame of the film took hours of computation, spread across four hundred machines running through the night.

    Technology

  • The inflation figure comes from a computation over thousands of prices collected in shops across the country each month.

    Economics

  • Each move the chess engine considers triggers a computation over millions of positions before it settles on a reply.

    Gaming

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