as in to calculate
to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations
for the test we were required to compute the answers without using a calculator
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Recent Examples of compute
Those users aren’t equipped with advanced, expensive and sometimes esoteric computing hardware.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 25 May 2026
Sarah, Claire’s relentlessly perky robot sidekick, similarly cannot compute why Claire would wish to undermine Sarah’s prime directive, to keep Claire alive.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
Future benefit payments will not include the six months of earnings that would otherwise be used to compute future earnings.
—Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
In 2024, DeepMind researchers won a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for advances in computing protein structures.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 22 May 2026
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 25 May 2026
Sarah, Claire’s relentlessly perky robot sidekick, similarly cannot compute why Claire would wish to undermine Sarah’s prime directive, to keep Claire alive.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
Future benefit payments will not include the six months of earnings that would otherwise be used to compute future earnings.
—Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
In 2024, DeepMind researchers won a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for advances in computing protein structures.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 22 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for compute
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This is essentially a way to calculate the lowest rate that workers will accept, and the highest rate consumers will accept.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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Ask the vendor to show how a complex margin scenario is calculated, and what happens when the LLM produces an incorrect result.—
Raju Malhotra,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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The person who finds the extra layer of life might broadcast it immediately but then might figure, Wait a second, why are all these people coming to me?—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 May 2026
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So the major upsets may be fewer, but that figures to be less because of expansion itself than the consequences of the other market forces.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
24 May 2026
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“Compute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compute. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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