as in calculation
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
he did a little number crunching and made an offer on the house
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for number crunching
Noun
-
The savings projected under Biden were even larger after including purchase incentives in the calculations.—
Ignacio Calderon,
USA Today,
31 July 2025 -
When Anthropic silently added additional weekly usage limits to Claude Code, power users were left befuddled, claiming the company’s calculation of usage was inaccurate.—
Rashi Shrivastava,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
Noun
-
Lehrer retired from performing in the 70s, turning to teaching math.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
28 July 2025
-
For a lot of young professionals, the math isn’t mathing.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
28 July 2025
Noun
-
Beginning in 1970, Edwards and a close friend began teaching a class, one afternoon a week, at Argonne National Laboratory, instructing members of the lab’s custodial staff on reading, writing and basic arithmetic.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
24 July 2025
-
Researchers have also made progress identifying the procedures that language models use to perform tasks such as retrieving relevant words from earlier in a sentence, identifying the grammatical function (opens a new tab) of certain words or doing simple arithmetic (opens a new tab).—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Cite this Entry
“Number crunching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/number%20crunching. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share