as in calculation
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
he wasn't very good at ciphering, but he had excellent language skills
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as in calculating
to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations
were surprised by how much we had spent on the cruise after we had ciphered out the grand total
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ciphering
Noun
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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 -
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
Verb
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Rygh plays Vili, the calculating right-hand to Jarl Hakon (Paul Blair), the village’s powerful and strategic leader.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
22 Apr. 2026
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Looming over the competition is the threat of nuclear annihilation that a calculating KGB agent warns his American counterpart is a very real danger if this contest doesn’t go off as planned.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
22 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
Verb
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And with a compressed preseason window and key contributors still overseas, the margin for figuring things out isn’t wide.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
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Without a basic plan, groups tend to stop abruptly, block walkways, or create congestion while figuring things out.—
Jacqueline Dole,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In a town of fewer than 2,000 people where 75 homes were damaged or destroyed, the math is devastating — but the fact that no lives were lost and no pets remain missing tells you something about what this community did in its worst moment.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
23 Apr. 2026
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The highest enrollment was likely in 1909, with some 90 students studying bookkeeping, telegraphy, penmanship, math and English.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
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For this purpose, the team received an allocation of computing time on the Frontier.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Apr. 2026
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But using and training AI models requires a massive amount of computing power in the form of chips that are housed in large data centers.—
KATHERINE LIN,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Photonic processors are chip systems that use light to move data and, in some cases, to perform computation.—
Kai Nicol-Schwarz,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2026
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Amazon makes most of its money providing computations and storage in the cloud.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Ciphering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ciphering. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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