as in calculating
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 computing
Particularly, Tursa’s computing power was key to the rapid fine-tuning of the 650-million-parameter model.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Managing this amount of data is extremely difficult and requires massive amounts of computing power, but the information is becoming more accurate every day as the number of sightings increase.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Citing unnamed sources, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the White House is considering taking a stake in several quantum computing companies to share in the upside of the technology.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
For now, businesses that want to use Google TPUs have to sign up to rent computing power in Google’s cloud.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
Smaller cloud computing competitors like Oracle and CoreWeave are gaining market share with AI-specific offerings.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
At Akamai Technologies, CIO Kate Prouty and CFO Ed McGowan joined the cybersecurity and cloud computing company within a year of each other more than 25 years ago.
—John Kell, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
The Amazon cloud computing company, which is known as AWS and which supports wide swaths of the publicly available internet, issued early on Monday a series of updates on an apparent issue.
—Jessica Gorman, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2025
Quantum-computing playthings IonQ and Rigetti Computing both fell more than 20% in two days after monstrous rallies, and Robinhood shares have lost 15% in six trading days.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Managing this amount of data is extremely difficult and requires massive amounts of computing power, but the information is becoming more accurate every day as the number of sightings increase.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Citing unnamed sources, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the White House is considering taking a stake in several quantum computing companies to share in the upside of the technology.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
For now, businesses that want to use Google TPUs have to sign up to rent computing power in Google’s cloud.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
Smaller cloud computing competitors like Oracle and CoreWeave are gaining market share with AI-specific offerings.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
At Akamai Technologies, CIO Kate Prouty and CFO Ed McGowan joined the cybersecurity and cloud computing company within a year of each other more than 25 years ago.
—John Kell, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
The Amazon cloud computing company, which is known as AWS and which supports wide swaths of the publicly available internet, issued early on Monday a series of updates on an apparent issue.
—Jessica Gorman, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2025
Quantum-computing playthings IonQ and Rigetti Computing both fell more than 20% in two days after monstrous rallies, and Robinhood shares have lost 15% in six trading days.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for computing
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Audiences might enjoy this cinematic sleight of hand, but the key characters are such single-minded, calculating individuals that the real magic would be to find any heart in this tale.—
Kirk Honeycutt,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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Such incidents could potentially occur due to things such as an error in calculating the takeoff weights or a faulty maneuver by the pilots, as well, Corriere della Sera noted.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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When a group has been together for so long, there can be a risk of other teams ‘figuring you out’.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Just figuring the run right there, Blake’s pitched some of the biggest outs, innings in the postseason for us.—
Gabe Smallson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Computing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/computing. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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