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COMPUTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
Synonyms:
calculation; computation; computing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("computation" is a kind of...):
procedure; process (a particular course of action intended to achieve a result)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "computation"):
transposition ((mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign)
number crunching (performing complex and lengthy numerical calculations)
mathematical operation; mathematical process; operation ((mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods)
recalculation (the act of calculating again (usually to eliminate errors or to include additional data))
Derivation:
computational (of or involving computation or computers)
compute (make a mathematical calculation or computation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
Synonyms:
calculation; computation; figuring; reckoning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("computation" is a kind of...):
problem solving (the thought processes involved in solving a problem)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "computation"):
extrapolation ((mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values)
interpolation ((mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known)
conversion (a change in the units or form of an expression:)
approximation; estimate; estimation; idea (an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth)
derivative; derived function; differential; differential coefficient; first derivative (the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx)
integral (the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x))
Derivation:
computational (of or involving computation or computers)
compute (make a mathematical calculation or computation)
Context examples:
To perform this feat the group acquired 13,188 whole-mount pathology slide images of the prostate from Nippon Medical School Hospital (NMSH), The amount of data was enormous, equivalent to approximately 86 billion image patches (sub-images divided for deep neural networks), and the computation was performed on AIP's powerful RAIDEN supercomputer.
(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Moradi and his team have addressed the problem of relying on X-ray crystallography by using a supercomputer at the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center to run continuous, microsecond-level computations simulating the molecular dynamics of membrane proteins.
(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)
We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
There had come many from the north—seven by the squire's computation, eight or nine according to Gray.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
By the same computation, they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, tolerable enough for one who had been so long inured to hardships.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
8th, That the said man-mountain shall, in two moons’ time, deliver in an exact survey of the circumference of our dominions, by a computation of his own paces round the coast.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He assured me that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speech.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I discovered nothing all that day; but upon the next, about three in the afternoon, when I had by my computation made twenty-four leagues from Blefuscu, I descried a sail steering to the south-east; my course was due east. I hailed her, but could get no answer; yet I found I gained upon her, for the wind slackened.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Then they measured my right thumb, and desired no more; for by a mathematical computation, that twice round the thumb is once round the wrist, and so on to the neck and the waist, and by the help of my old shirt, which I displayed on the ground before them for a pattern, they fitted me exactly.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
During this storm, which was followed by a strong wind west-south-west, we were carried, by my computation, about five hundred leagues to the east, so that the oldest sailor on board could not tell in what part of the world we were.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
