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
Underwater infrastructure challenges Underwater computing infrastructure introduces several operational challenges despite its efficiency benefits.
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Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
Money is pouring into the industry, but most of it is for computing power, not people.
—Jonathan Weber, Fortune, 19 May 2026
Saronic recently partnered with Nvidia in an extended R&D capacity to apply its AI chips and computing platform to speed up, automate and streamline the way vessels are designed and operated.
—Rebecca Fannin, CNBC, 19 May 2026
By 2027, the goal is to have 500 megawatts’ worth of computing capacity.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
In Hamilton’s time, computing power was severely limited.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026
By early 1985, IBM—the computing giant that dominated corporate America—and its imitators had captured nearly half the personal computer market, up from about a third just months earlier.
—Geoffrey Cain, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026
Bond issuance has been robust, with the largest cloud-computing firms alone raising close to $100 billion in investment-grade bonds in the first quarter of 2026.
—Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
The cybersecurity and cloud computing company is benefiting from the surge in investment in artificial-intelligence technology.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
Money is pouring into the industry, but most of it is for computing power, not people.
—Jonathan Weber, Fortune, 19 May 2026
Saronic recently partnered with Nvidia in an extended R&D capacity to apply its AI chips and computing platform to speed up, automate and streamline the way vessels are designed and operated.
—Rebecca Fannin, CNBC, 19 May 2026
By 2027, the goal is to have 500 megawatts’ worth of computing capacity.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
In Hamilton’s time, computing power was severely limited.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026
By early 1985, IBM—the computing giant that dominated corporate America—and its imitators had captured nearly half the personal computer market, up from about a third just months earlier.
—Geoffrey Cain, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026
Bond issuance has been robust, with the largest cloud-computing firms alone raising close to $100 billion in investment-grade bonds in the first quarter of 2026.
—Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
The cybersecurity and cloud computing company is benefiting from the surge in investment in artificial-intelligence technology.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for computing
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Giuseppe Pappa took a mathematical approach to the celestial event, by photographing the moon, Venus and the gas giant Jupiter in the skies over Catania, Italy on May 19 before calculating the angles between them.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
20 May 2026
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But in February a team from Iceberg Quantum in Sydney, Australia, dramatically reduced that estimate, calculating that with careful optimization and error correction, hackers might need fewer than 100,000 qubits for the feat.—
Zeeya Merali,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
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My journey to figuring things out and healing is now through helping other people.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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The data suggests people may be figuring that out.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
15 May 2026
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“Computing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/computing. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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