Thesaurus results for COMPUTATIONS

computations

noun

plural of computation

as in calculations

the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value we were able to divide the dinner bill fairly with a little computation

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Recent Examples of computations Amazon makes most of its money providing computations and storage in the cloud. —

Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026 This is critical for maintaining coherence in quantum systems during longer computations. —

Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Apr. 2026 Other milestones include higher qubit counts — which increase the potential size and complexity of problems a quantum computer can represent and help solve — and coherence times, which allow more reliable computations by reducing the impact of noise and errors. —

Dylan Butts,matthew Chin, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026 Super Micro makes high-performance computer servers that can accommodate hyper-advanced computations and processes needed for artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technologies. —

George Avalos, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026 However, until recently, these computations involved perfect mergers that always resulted in spheres instead of any other shapes. —

Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2026 Whereas most computers use CPUs (central processing units) to perform the majority of their computations, the specialized GPUs (graphical processing units) and TPUs (tensor processing units) used in AI data centers use several times as much energy per computer as a standard CPU would. —

Big Think, 24 Feb. 2026 But AIs will just happily blast through those tedious computations. —

Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026 Bad software architecture forces unnecessary data transfers, redundant computations, and excessive resource use. —

Arjun Sharma, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2026

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The order matters, because most states use figures from the federal tax form as the starting point for their state tax calculations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
Companies use this data to verify their technical calculations and to prepare for the licensing process required by regulatory agencies.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026