Definition of computation

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

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Outreckon :: Outreckon (v. t.) To exceed in reckoning or 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..
Residual :: Residual (n.) The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula..
Sexenary :: Sexenary (a.) Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.
Misreckoning :: Misreckoning (n.) An erroneous computation.
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..
Calculating :: Calculating (n.) The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.
Compute :: Compute (n.) Computation.
Calcule :: Calcule (n.) Reckoning; computation.
Measurable :: Measurable (a.) Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or 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.
Reckon :: Reckon (v. i.) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
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..
Compt :: Compt (n.) Account; reckoning; computation.
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..
Account :: Account (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time..
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..
Epilogism :: Epilogism (n.) Enumeration; computation.
Computation :: Computation (n.) The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
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