Definition of computation

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Computation (n.) The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

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Neptune :: Neptune (n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years..
Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (a.) Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves.
Table :: Table (n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables,
Calculate :: Calculate (v. i.) To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity..
Reckon :: Reckon (v. i.) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
Computation :: Computation (n.) The result of computation; the amount computed.
Outreckon :: Outreckon (v. t.) To exceed in reckoning or computation.
Calculating :: Calculating (n.) The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.
Compt :: Compt (n.) Account; reckoning; computation.
Computation :: Computation (n.) The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
Sexenary :: Sexenary (a.) Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.
Miscomputation :: Miscomputation (n.) Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
Coefficient :: Coefficient (n.) A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction..
Compute :: Compute (n.) Computation.
Account :: Account (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time..
Epilogism :: Epilogism (n.) Enumeration; computation.
Calcule :: Calcule (n.) Reckoning; computation.
Calculus :: Calculus (n.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.
Arithmetic :: Arithmetic (n.) The science of numbers; the art of computation by figures.
Residual :: Residual (n.) The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula..
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