Definition of computation

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Computation (n.) The result of computation; the amount computed.

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Computation :: Computation (n.) The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
Computation :: Computation (n.) The result of computation; the amount computed.
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..
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,
Misreckoning :: Misreckoning (n.) An erroneous computation.
Outreckon :: Outreckon (v. t.) To exceed in reckoning or computation.
Account :: Account (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time..
Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (a.) Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves.
Residual :: Residual (n.) The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula..
Multiplication :: Multiplication (n.) The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given number or quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- the reverse of division..
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..
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.
Make :: Make (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day..
Compute :: Compute (n.) Computation.
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules..
Calcule :: Calcule (n.) Reckoning; computation.
Calculating :: Calculating (n.) The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.
Ab :: Ab (n.) The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August..
Compt :: Compt (n.) Account; reckoning; computation.
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