How to Use compute in a Sentence

compute

verb
Definition of computenext
Synonyms for computenext
  • The heat index, which is a figure computed from both heat and humidity was as high as 105.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • The researcher simply needs enough data to compute meaningful cycles.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • During that same period those residences sold on average for more than twice the value used to compute property taxes.
    — Thiru Vignarajah, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Tunes grab the ear before the brain can compute who’s singing them, and thanks to headphones, music can be a particularly personal and private medium.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2021
  • But ASRock had a total smorgasbord, showing off more than a dozen new motherboards at the world's largest computing trade show.
    — Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 30 June 2024
  • Now, around 95% of U.S. households own at least one type of computing device, per the latest available Census data.
    — Cheyenne Devon, CNBC, 20 July 2024
  • That number is difficult to compute, and it’s probably much larger than the actual number of coinciding points, but the authors proved that this hard ceiling does exist.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Other airlines use a combination of factors to compute the value of miles and points, including distance, ticket types and partnerships with other airlines.
    — Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2021
  • For some reason or another, his maniacal calibrations and booming drives do not compute at Augusta.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Conclusion Yes, the demand for computing power is skyrocketing.
    — Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024
  • Just does not compute in my mind of what that looks like.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • The concept of a ‘revenge game’ does not compute for these guys.
    — oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The software will ask you simple questions and compute all the math for you.
    — Kristen Doerer, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The thresholds computed in this way are all less than 3, so the triples relate to the part of the spectrum below 3.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The program that does the detection would compute a value based on the text and be able to compare that to a stored key.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • This gives the iPad Pro a greater ability to compute AI tasks on-device.
    — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
  • There are seven ways to demonstrate that 2% doesn’t compute.
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
  • More analogies come to mind, right away, as my brain tries to compute what is happening.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Yes, the Big 12 has been anointed as the best men’s basketball conference in the land by those who talk and those who compute.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The thresholds in the Markov spectrum come from a number c in this sequence by computing sqrt(9 - 4/c^2).
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But Winter Olympics sports not named hockey just don’t compute.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022
  • By measuring the motions of stars, astronomers hope to compute the orbits of stars around the galaxy—and therefore, the structure of the Milky Way.
    — H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Any of these can be in local hardware or take advantage of cloud compute from Azure.
    — Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 24 May 2022
  • Theft of resources: This refers to the unauthorized use of computing resources.
    — Dan Branco, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • As part of the deal, the software giant would supply computing power needed to train the AI models.
    — Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Overloaded with information and access to things that our brains just aren’t built to compute and handle, like all the strains of the world.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • That required the kind of computing power and resources only available to the West Coast tech giants.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • Welch used computer models to compute the distance to the object.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • People on the coasts always had trouble computing that the people in the middle could live radical lives.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024

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