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[ad. L. computātiōn-em, n. of action f. computāre. Cf. F. computation (16th c. in Littré).]
1. The action or process of computing, reckoning, or counting; a method or system of reckoning; arithmetical or mathematical calculation.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxii. 4 A thowsand thre hundyr and twenty yhere..Be ewynlyk computatyown. 1509–10Act 1 Hen. VIII, c. 13 The yere of oure Lorde God MDix after the computacion of Englonde. 1555Eden Decades 180 (N.H.W. Ind.) By the computation of Venice .iiii. graines make a carette. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xxiii. 193 Having made the compasse of the worlde, they must finde the want of a whole day in their computation. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. (1821) 37 Tuesday the sixt of March, according to the new Computation. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. (1675) 50 The whole Earth..by the probablest computation, contains above ten thousand millions of Cubick German Leagues. 1709Steele Tatler No. 39 ⁋2 The Gregorian Computation..being eleven days before the Julian. 1873Herschel Pop. Lect. Sc. ii. 54 It is easy to find, by computation, the angles included between..the two lines of direction.
b. A computed number or amount, a reckoning.
1713Addison in Guardian No. 109 How many additional years are always to be thrown into female computations of this nature. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xvii. 468 The revenue fell short of the computation. 1816Keatinge Trav. I. 183 Others may give their hundred dishes, for..any computation below round numbers is scorned.
†2. In wider sense: Estimation, reckoning. Obs.
1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 1099 Least she should abase him in computation, more then ther was cause. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 5 We must not..think that computation, that is ratiocination, has place only in numbers. |