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Grammar : Verb
Spell : kuh m-pyoo-ting
Phonetic Transcription : kəmˈpyu tɪŋ



Definition of computing

Origin :
  • 1630s, from French computer, from Latin computare "to count, sum up, reckon together," from com- "with" (see com-) + putare "to reckon," originally "to prune" (see pave). Related: Computed; computing.
  • verb calculate, estimate
Example sentences :
  • A trace of this appears in our word ciphering, meaning figuring or computing.
  • Extract from : « The Hindu-Arabic Numerals » by David Eugene Smith
  • There are a number of ways or methods of computing this time.
  • Extract from : « The Mother and Her Child » by William S. Sadler
  • Been computing the orbit of the wreckage of the Arcturus around Jupiter.
  • Extract from : « Spacehounds of IPC » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • Why, then, should we refuse to take orders from a computing animal?
  • Extract from : « The Highest Treason » by Randall Garrett
  • Interfaces affect the nature of practical experiences in computing.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • There is no computing the suffering of children in these respects.
  • Extract from : « Folly as It Flies » by Fanny Fern
  • Explain the method of computing the time from any plotted point to a mine.
  • Extract from : « The Gunner's Examiner » by Harold E. Cloke
  • The average of these pairs was used in computing the yearly average.
  • Extract from : « Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas » by Dwight Platt
  • "I sit and muse sometimes when I ought to be computing," he said.
  • Extract from : « Marriage » by H. G. Wells
  • The people have an easy way of computing distance by the survey lines.
  • Extract from : « Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field » by Thomas W. Knox

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