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 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.
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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
To check that, Lai and his colleagues computed the most optimal task allocations, schedules, and motions in a few simplified work cells and compared those with results delivered by RoboBallet.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
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
To check that, Lai and his colleagues computed the most optimal task allocations, schedules, and motions in a few simplified work cells and compared those with results delivered by RoboBallet.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for computed
Verb
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Birthday celebrations in subsequent years seem hardly to have been calculated to kindle a sense of humility.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2026
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That November, the New York Times calculated that oil and coal interests had contributed $75 million to his campaign — far short of a billion but still a massive sum.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Feb. 2026
Verb
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With bullpen spots available, Chafin figured this would be the best opportunity to break camp with a team.—
Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
18 Feb. 2026
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With Russia still banned, this figured to be the year another nation would take over.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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