How to Use compute in a Sentence

compute

verb
Definition of computenext
Synonyms for computenext
  • Just does not compute in my mind of what that looks like.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • The concept of a ‘revenge game’ does not compute for these guys.
    — oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The software will ask you simple questions and compute all the math for you.
    — Kristen Doerer, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The thresholds computed in this way are all less than 3, so the triples relate to the part of the spectrum below 3.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The program that does the detection would compute a value based on the text and be able to compare that to a stored key.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • There are seven ways to demonstrate that 2% doesn’t compute.
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
  • More analogies come to mind, right away, as my brain tries to compute what is happening.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Yes, the Big 12 has been anointed as the best men’s basketball conference in the land by those who talk and those who compute.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The thresholds in the Markov spectrum come from a number c in this sequence by computing sqrt(9 - 4/c^2).
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But Winter Olympics sports not named hockey just don’t compute.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022
  • By measuring the motions of stars, astronomers hope to compute the orbits of stars around the galaxy—and therefore, the structure of the Milky Way.
    — H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Any of these can be in local hardware or take advantage of cloud compute from Azure.
    — Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 24 May 2022
  • Theft of resources: This refers to the unauthorized use of computing resources.
    — Dan Branco, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • As part of the deal, the software giant would supply computing power needed to train the AI models.
    — Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Overloaded with information and access to things that our brains just aren’t built to compute and handle, like all the strains of the world.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • That required the kind of computing power and resources only available to the West Coast tech giants.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • Welch used computer models to compute the distance to the object.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The robot would leverage years of advances in hardware and computing power to do many of the things that the PR2 could do, but in a way that was simple, safe, and affordable.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2023
  • That Biden, famously a respecter of norms, would set them aside now probably didn’t compute at first.
    — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Tech giants like Google and Microsoft need a lot of computing power to run the most advanced AI models.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This meant astronomers could not reliably compute the age or fate of the cosmos or the distance to other galaxies.
    — New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Inside a computing college, there may be fewer critics around who can slow down bad ideas.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The company said its radar tracking data helped to compute a miss distance of just 20 feet (6 meters), with a slight margin of error.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Down here in Alabama, such a combination of words doesn’t compute in this college football-crazy part of the country.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 21 Apr. 2022
  • In these cases, RSEI will use the midpoint of the range to compute concentration estimations.
    — Lylla Younes, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2021
  • When asked if the obvious next title choice would push him to Minus (–), Ed said that did not compute, actually.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2022
  • In the 1960s, Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer computed the q-expansions for scores and scores of modular forms.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But if the black-hole-to-plasma translation is hard, then any quantity that is equivalent to black hole volume is going to be hard to compute.
    — George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • The bowl cupped a spherical cloud of iron that acted as a radiator for the waste heat emitted by Paradise’s quadrillions of computing modules.
    — Karl Schroeder, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2024

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