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单词 compute
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Definition of compute in English:

compute

verb kəmˈpjuːtkəmˈpjut
[with object]
  • 1Reckon or calculate (a figure or amount)

    the hire charge is computed on a daily basis
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We created an index of desire by computing the average of the numeric responses to these two items.
    • The assistant clerk computes the figures and presents his tally to the chief clerk, who examines the calculations before initialing them.
    • However, the same weights are applied in computing percentages for both states.
    • Most often when we compute a correlation coefficient between two variables, we take observations on both variables.
    • We also computed the optimal samples of each size using integer programming.
    • Then we use the Fisher calculation to compute an overall probability for the whole set of words.
    • From these counts we computed the fraction of correct detections among all detections.
    • After the pharmacist enters the required information, the Framingham risk calculator computes a patient's 10-year cardiac risk level and depicts the results graphically.
    • The calculator computes your family's contribution to climate change and determines how many trees you must plant to offset your actions.
    • For each genome and each kind of bias, we compute a correlation coefficient that expresses the strength of the bias for the genome.
    • They may be able to compute figures in their heads with lightning speed or display a remarkable memory for dates.
    • For each participant, we computed a gamma coefficient specific to items that participants had failed in the first recall test.
    • You can borrow my brother's calculator to compute the compound interest if you need it.
    • To compute an average of these standards, we first determined a single value for each.
    • A turing machine can compute anything computable, given sufficient time.
    • When you're done, you count up the number of cognates and compute the fraction of words that are cognate.
    • My brain couldn't compute exactly what it was I was seeing.
    • The stem elongation was recorded every second and the software computed an average value every 60 measurements.
    • We computed the weighted average values for the above variables for the 20 Hungarian counties.
    • To reduce measurement error, this instrument takes three readings and computes an average.
    Synonyms
    calculate, work out, reckon, figure, enumerate, determine, evaluate, assess, quantify, put a figure on
    add up, add together, count up, tally, total, totalize
    measure
    British tot up
    rare cast
    1. 1.1informal no object, with negative Seem reasonable; make sense.
      the idea just doesn't compute
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sadly, when it comes to my pocketbook these days, that does not compute.
      • They do not compute, and more importantly, who can relate to someone who makes almost $97,000 a day?

Derivatives

  • computability

  • noun kəmpjuːtəˈbɪlɪtikəmˌpjudəˈbɪlədi
    • And philosophy is not far from the main concerns of such mathematical fields as logic, set theory, category theory, computability, and even analysis and geometry.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There are wines that have proven their computability with local cuisines over the centuries, wines such as Sancerre in the Loire, Rioja in Spain, Chianti in Tuscany, and the lighter wines of the French and Italian Riviera.
      • Setting aside issues of computability and levels of automation, the research team identified 12 components within RAPTR.
      • Computer science theories assess the computability and complexity of computational problems, but these theories are generally based on Boolean logic and the binary representation of information.
      • It's uncanny the way Turing and Shannon and all these people come together with ideas of computability, digital information theory, and cybernetics at around the same time as DNA falls into place.
  • computable

  • adjective kəmˈpjuːtəb(ə)lkəmˈpjudəb(ə)l
    • In particular, composite fields (for example, temperature and shade) are naturally computable using the intersection of regions in the separate fields.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Our dynamic revenue analysis model is a computable general equilibrium model designed to estimate the effects a tax law change would have on the economy and, through these effects, on tax revenues.
      • Atom depth is an easily computable quantity, yet it allows one to detect some general features of proteins and protein domains.
      • The activity of ‘dividing inventorially’ a text into a logical structure of parts that are computable according to a machine-readable ‘arithmetic’ can indeed be a dizzying enterprise.
      • ‘A risk-free reference is needed to provide bond investors with a realistic and computable assessment of risk,’ said one fixed-income analyst.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French computer or Latin computare, from com- 'together' + putare 'to settle (an account)'.

Rhymes

acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute
 
 

Definition of compute in US English:

compute

verbkəmˈpjutkəmˈpyo͞ot
[with object]
  • 1Calculate or reckon (a figure or amount)

    we can compute the exact increase
    depreciation is computed by applying the straight-line method
    Example sentencesExamples
    • My brain couldn't compute exactly what it was I was seeing.
    • After the pharmacist enters the required information, the Framingham risk calculator computes a patient's 10-year cardiac risk level and depicts the results graphically.
    • From these counts we computed the fraction of correct detections among all detections.
    • A turing machine can compute anything computable, given sufficient time.
    • We created an index of desire by computing the average of the numeric responses to these two items.
    • They may be able to compute figures in their heads with lightning speed or display a remarkable memory for dates.
    • However, the same weights are applied in computing percentages for both states.
    • To compute an average of these standards, we first determined a single value for each.
    • Then we use the Fisher calculation to compute an overall probability for the whole set of words.
    • We computed the weighted average values for the above variables for the 20 Hungarian counties.
    • When you're done, you count up the number of cognates and compute the fraction of words that are cognate.
    • For each genome and each kind of bias, we compute a correlation coefficient that expresses the strength of the bias for the genome.
    • The calculator computes your family's contribution to climate change and determines how many trees you must plant to offset your actions.
    • You can borrow my brother's calculator to compute the compound interest if you need it.
    • We also computed the optimal samples of each size using integer programming.
    • The assistant clerk computes the figures and presents his tally to the chief clerk, who examines the calculations before initialing them.
    • Most often when we compute a correlation coefficient between two variables, we take observations on both variables.
    • For each participant, we computed a gamma coefficient specific to items that participants had failed in the first recall test.
    • To reduce measurement error, this instrument takes three readings and computes an average.
    • The stem elongation was recorded every second and the software computed an average value every 60 measurements.
    Synonyms
    calculate, work out, reckon, figure, enumerate, determine, evaluate, assess, quantify, put a figure on
    1. 1.1no object Make a calculation, especially using a computer.
      modern circuitry can compute faster than any chess player
    2. 1.2informal no object, with negative Seem reasonable; make sense.
      the idea just doesn't compute
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They do not compute, and more importantly, who can relate to someone who makes almost $97,000 a day?
      • Sadly, when it comes to my pocketbook these days, that does not compute.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French computer or Latin computare, from com- ‘together’ + putare ‘to settle (an account)’.

 
 
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