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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Noun
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Now more than ever, the cost of a delay is a calculation more airline passengers will have to make.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
29 May 2026 -
Advertisement Households face their own version of this calculation.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
29 May 2026
Verb
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Nursing home operators argued the state failed to properly account for the medical complexity of residents when calculating those payments, reducing reimbursement for facilities caring for some of the sickest patients.—
Brittany Miller,
FOXNews.com,
11 June 2026
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Tiny silica beads about 10 microns in diameter are projected at the polymer at about 750 meters per second (over 1,600 miles per hour) with the amount of energy absorbed measured by calculating the change in particle velocity before and after the beads pass through.—
Shirl Leigh
June 10,
New Atlas,
10 June 2026
Noun
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The arithmetic is straightforward.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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The arithmetic is straightforward.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
22 May 2026
Verb
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At just 5-5, the team still is figuring things out now that Clark is back full time.—
David Troy OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2026
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For Democrats in this robustly blue state, part of the challenge in figuring a path forward is that every candidate — even those already in power — pitches themselves as a bona fide progressive against the status quo.—
National Correspondent,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2026
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Before his presidency, solving Social Security’s financial troubles — and indeed, those of the broader federal budget — seemed like a simple political math equation.—
Ben Ritz,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Per data from the 2024-25 school year, only slightly more than 30% of high school juniors across the state were meeting or exceeding the standard for math.—
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
11 June 2026
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Securing access to computing power is becoming a key hurdle in the global AI race as companies compete to train increasingly powerful models.—
Melissa Hancock,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
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The team checked this directly by computing how much of each galaxy's baryon budget actually stayed bound to the system.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
9 June 2026
Noun
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The reason is the error accumulation in quantum computation.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
9 June 2026
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There are many different hardware paths to quantum computation, each with their own advantages and tradeoffs.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2026
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“Ciphering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ciphering. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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