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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Lively’s lawyers must still submit billing records and fee calculations for court approval.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026 -
The calculations revealed the quark generalized parton distribution (GPD) of the pion.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 June 2026
Verb
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Algorithms are very good at calculating what is most likely to come next.—
Alma Rota,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
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When calculating the age of a mature tree, the rule of thumb is to measure its circumference at chest level.—
Theodore R. Johnson,
Washington Post,
17 June 2026
Noun
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The bears are running careful arithmetic on the company in the rearview mirror.—
Jon Markman,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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The short thesis, stated plainly The arithmetic of the buildout is unforgiving.—
Bhaskar Chakravorti,
Fortune,
7 June 2026
Verb
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Researchers are still figuring this out, but there’s one interesting theory.—
Ryan Brennan,
Sacbee.com,
13 June 2026
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Normally Wednesday would have been Brayan Bello’s turn to take the mound, but with the struggling Red Sox right-hander figuring things out in Triple-A, the club will instead hand the ball to an up-and-coming rookie.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
10 June 2026
Noun
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PennDOT is installing about $20,000 in safety improvements at a Delaware County intersection where a college math professor was killed while riding his bicycle six months ago.—
Madeleine Wright,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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Like any astronaut crew, the resume of each of these astronauts reads like a greatest hits list of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, training, including aviation in civilian and military contexts.—
Margaret Landis,
The Conversation,
18 June 2026
Verb
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Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy.—
Sven Bilén,
The Conversation,
16 June 2026
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The team believes the approach could provide chip designers with a platform for predicting transistor performance and scaling limits before fabrication begins, potentially shortening development cycles for future AI and high-performance computing chips.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
16 June 2026
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Micro-channel tech The rapid advancement of high-performance AI chips has created a severe energy crisis for data centers, which require massive amounts of electricity both to power intensive computations and to cool down the resulting heat.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
16 June 2026
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Quantum computing may solve optimization problems and complex computations that traditional computers cannot, boosting AI's computational capacity.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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“Ciphering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ciphering. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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