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
  • Amazon Web Services completed several studies, doing calculations based on how many employees and trucks would run through the site.
    — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Even with his professional expertise and years of conversations with his grandmother about her wishes, Ashton, the executor of her estate, said deciding what to do with the house isn't simply a financial calculation.
    — Sharon Epperson,Stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of calculation
Verb
  • Waterford’s zoning board rejected that plan, with some commissioners calculating it could have opened the door to as many as 1,500 apartments.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The judge will sort that out at an evidentiary hearing in September before calculating the final interest award.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of calculating
Noun
  • Standard bereavement policies, which in many organizations amount to a handful of days, are simply not built for that arithmetic.
    — Mena Mirhom, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • That arithmetic has become increasingly difficult for Japan to fight.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 July 2026
Definition of arithmetic
Verb
  • The automaker is figuring the yen at 160 to the dollar for the full fiscal year.
    — Yuri Kageyama, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
  • At the time of the trade, Abel was an almost perfect combination of big-league readiness and long-term upside — a first-round pick who seemed to be figuring things out in the upper levels.
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Definition of figuring
Noun
  • Musicians, artists, theater and digital media majors will learn alongside math, computer science and electrical engineering students.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Rough math puts the figure around $66 million per year, about the same as the annual budget for the city of Eagle.
    — Mark Dee August 2, Idaho Statesman, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of math
Verb
  • SpaceX and Nvidia are taking artificial intelligence beyond Earth, unveiling plans to build a satellite designed to perform advanced AI computing directly in orbit.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Compared to their American counterparts, Chinese AI companies are at a massive disadvantage in computing power, a gap that has grown substantially since ChatGPT’s release.
    — Garrison Lovely, Time, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of computing
Noun
  • And before the researchers could push far enough to find out, the computation collapsed.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Through the mid-1980s, Wolfram continued this work, discovering a number of fundamental connections between computation and nature, and inventing such concepts as computational irreducibility.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of computation
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