computation

English

Etymology

From late Middle English computacioun, from Middle French computation, from Latin computatiō, from computare (“sum up, reckon, compute”); see compute. Morphologically compute +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒmpjʊˈteɪʃən/

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• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑmpjʊˈteɪʃən/
• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒmpjʊˈteɪʃən/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔmpjʊˈtæɪʃən/, /ˌkɒmpjʊˈtæɪʃən/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /kəmpjʊˈʈeːʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

computation (countable and uncountable, plural computations)

1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 42:

     As there are some naturally deficient in the power of computation, others in an ear for harmony, so Francis Evelyn was utterly devoid of truth—he neither understood its moral beauty nor its actual utility.

2. The result of computation; the amount computed.

Synonyms

• (act or process of computing): ciphering, calculus; see also Thesaurus:calculation

Derived terms

• biocomputation
• computational
• computation history
• computationism
• computationist
• computation time
• computation tree logic
• computative
• geocomputation
• hypercomputation
• metacomputation
• microcomputation
• miscomputation
• neurocomputation
• noncomputation
• precomputation
• recomputation
• subcomputation
• supercomputation

Translations

the act or process of computing

Arabic: تحسيب Armenian: հաշվարկ (hy) (hašvark) Bulgarian: изчисление (bg) n (izčislenie) Dutch: berekening (nl) m Finnish: laskeminen (fi) French: calcul (fr) m German: Berechnung (de) f, Rechnen n Greek: Ancient: συλλογισμός m (sullogismós) Ido: komputo (io) Indonesian: komputasi Irish: ríomh m Italian: calcolo (it) m Japanese: 計算 (ja) (keisan) Middle English: computacioun, acounte Persian: محاسبه (fa) Portuguese: cálculo (pt), computação (pt) f Russian: вычисле́ние (ru) n (vyčislénije) Scottish Gaelic: tomhas m Slovak: výpočet Spanish: cálculo (es) m Tagalog: tuos, pagtutuos Tajik: муҳосаба (muhosaba) Welsh: cyfrifiant

the result of computation

Bulgarian: разчет (bg) m (razčet) French: résultat (fr) German: Berechnung (de) f Ido: komputuro Tagalog: tuos

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See also

• computation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French computation, from Latin computātiō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

computation f (plural computations)

1. (old) computation

   Synonym: calcul

Further reading

• “computation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

computation

1. alternative form of computacioun