ciphering 1 of 2

noun

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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ciphering

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verb

present participle of cipher
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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  1. calculation
  2. calculating
  3. arithmetic
  4. figuring
  5. math
  6. computing
  7. computation
Noun
  • The reversal underscores how quickly the calculations of Asia’s wealthy can change.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The Patriot system tracks the missile, predicts its path and launches within minutes, all while carrying out complex calculations to ensure the interceptor finds its target.
    — Emma Burrows, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of calculation
Verb
  • Understanding the rules and calculating your expenses, funding gap and available federal loan amounts is essential.
    — Deane Biermeier, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Its more consequential proposal, however, is a new approach to calculating wool’s carbon footprint that produces dramatically lower results than conventional life-cycle assessments.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of calculating
Noun
  • In an approach that is reminiscent of the parabola calculator, cryptographers use points along a special curve in combination with simple arithmetic to create a key.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The potential bid implied by that arithmetic has barely appeared.
    — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of arithmetic
Verb
  • But with a rookie head coach figuring it out on the fly, the floor may be much lower.
    — The Athletic NFL Staff, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • If the worst does happen, you’re not left figuring it out alone.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of figuring
Noun
  • Other majors, such as engineering, with its extensive math requirements, have been harder to shrink.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The business is also growing its base of millions of curious thinkers with non-language subjects; Preply now covers math, computer science, and chess.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of math
Verb
  • While the company's revenue is set to expand, its customer base – which consists largely of the cloud computing giants that run enterprise workloads for businesses – appears to be growing more concentrated.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Pachocki says confidence in alignment and safety has become as limiting to OpenAI’s progress as access to computing power.
    — Alex Heath, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of computing
Noun
  • Newer reasoning models do the same thing, spending computation on intermediate steps before returning a final answer, breaking a hard question into parts and working through each one.
    — Adam Fish, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Just like laptops, cars depend on microprocessors and RAM, or random-access memory, to run all of their computations.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of computation
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