as in calculated
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 computed
The minimum amount is computed based on the life expectancy table in IRS Publication 590-B, which is available free on the IRS web site.
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Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
The event begins with a single ski jump in the morning where distance and style points are computed into a time advantage for the best jumper.
—ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026
The event begins with a single ski jump in the morning, where distance and style points are computed into a time advantage for the best jumper.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 17 Feb. 2026
How many people on Earth actually understand how wins above replacement are computed?
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
In order to train the model correctly , all the GPUs need to know the average gradient computed across all batches.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2026
Today, pi has been computed to over 200 trillion digits, using algorithms whose foundations trace back to Ramanujan’s ideas.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
The simulation hypothesis does not have to mean that people in the simulation are only soulless, computed AI inside someone else’s creation.
—Rizwan Virk, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
The alternative proposition is emergence, which states that qualitatively novel properties are found in more complex systems that can never, even in principle, be derived or computed from fundamental laws, principles, and entities.
—Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
The event begins with a single ski jump in the morning where distance and style points are computed into a time advantage for the best jumper.
—ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026
The event begins with a single ski jump in the morning, where distance and style points are computed into a time advantage for the best jumper.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 17 Feb. 2026
How many people on Earth actually understand how wins above replacement are computed?
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
In order to train the model correctly , all the GPUs need to know the average gradient computed across all batches.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2026
Today, pi has been computed to over 200 trillion digits, using algorithms whose foundations trace back to Ramanujan’s ideas.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
The simulation hypothesis does not have to mean that people in the simulation are only soulless, computed AI inside someone else’s creation.
—Rizwan Virk, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
The alternative proposition is emergence, which states that qualitatively novel properties are found in more complex systems that can never, even in principle, be derived or computed from fundamental laws, principles, and entities.
—Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for computed
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OnlyGuider, the leading OnlyFans search engine, calculated how much Boston residents spent on the adult content subscription site as well as how much its creators took in.—
Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
14 Mar. 2026
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Even squares or irregular blobs can be broken down into a series of progressively smaller circles and calculated using pi, Davoyan said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Coach Dan Hurley should have figured it out years ago.—
Letters to the Editor,
Hartford Courant,
12 Mar. 2026
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The girl was always up to something, so her parents figured extra bumps and bruises were just symptoms of an active childhood.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Computed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/computed. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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