computation
nounUK /ˌkɒmpjʊˈteɪʃn̩/ · US /ˌkɑmpjʊˈteɪʃn̩/
Etymology From late Middle English computacioun, from Middle French computation, from Latin computatiō, from computare (“sum up, reckon, compute”); see compute. Morphologically compute + -ation.
1
The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
- 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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 42:
2
The result of computation; the amount computed.
- 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