computative
adjEtymology From computation + -ive.
1
of or relating to computation, computational
- Adopting (the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding) Schönfeld's modification of Airy's formulae1891, “The Sun's Motion in Space”, in Science, page 254:
- The reckoning need not be genuinely computative (intellectual); it may take the form of motor adjustments1913, Walter B. Pitkin, “Time and the Percept”, in The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, page 316:
2
calculating, shrewdly or selfishly reckoning
- What will please reckless, computative and vulgar persons.1858–59, John Ruskin, The two paths: being lectures on art and its applications to decoration and manufacture, page 114:
- The demands of computative justice are thus unconsciously fulfilled by the last scions of a tainted stock.1948, W. A. Armstrong, “The Influence of Seneca and Machiavelli on the Elizabethan Tyrant”, in The Review of English Studies, page 24:
- Derived terms
- computativeness
- Related terms
- computational