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English

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European*ḱe
Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
Proto-Italic*kom
Proto-Italic*kom-
Latincon-
Latincom-
Proto-Italic*putos
Latinputus?
Proto-Indo-European*-yéti
Proto-Indo-European*-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic*-āō
Latin-ō
Latinputō
Proto-Italic*-āzi
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Latin-āre
Englishcompute

    17th century. Borrowed fromFrenchcomputer, fromLatincomputō(“calculate, compute”).Doublet ofcount.

    Pronunciation

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    • Hyphenation:com‧pute

    enPR:kəm-pyo͞ot', Rhymes:-uːt

    IPA(key): /kŏm.pyʈ/,(most common realisation)[kɐmˈpjuːʈ]

    Verb

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    compute (third-person singular simple presentcomputes,present participlecomputing,simple past and past participlecomputed)

    1. (transitive) Toreckon,calculate.
      Can anyone herecompute the square root of 10201?
      • 1667,John Milton, “Book VI”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC, lines680–687:
        Effulgence of my Glorie, Son belov’d, / Son in whoſe face inviſible is beheld / Viſibly, what by Deitie I am, / And in whoſe hand what by Decree I doe, / Second Omnipotence, two dayes are paſt, / Two dayes, as wecompute the dayes of Heav’n, / SinceMichael and his Powers went forth to tame / Theſe diſobedient[…]
      • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, inThe Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.:Hodder and Stoughton,→OCLC:
        "When we have ascertained exactly how little will serve we shall be able tocompute how long we shall be able to exist."
      • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, inJournal of English for Academic Purposes, volume35,→DOI, page112:
        Coxhead (2000)computed that the AWL covered approximately 10% of the academic corpus from which it was derived[.]
    2. (intransitive, informal) Tomake sense.(commonly used inmimicry of ascience fictionalrobot and spoken in arobotic voice; most frequently in negative constructs)
      Does thatcompute, or do I need to explain further?
      • 1966 September 24,TV Guide, Radnor, Pa., page25, column 1:
        Then at the last minute Harris was brought aboard as Dr. Zachary Smith, initially an authentic, lip-curling nogoodnik who, it was presently discovered, could be better used for laughs played off Mumy and a sober-sided robot (“You bubbleheaded booby,” sneers Harris. “That does notcompute,” returns the robot dryly).
      • 1967 August 2,The Australian Women's Weekly, Sydney, page46, column 2:
        And you'd feel an utter fool if, when you asked where the biscuit was, a message came out: "Biscuits do notcompute. Your wife programmed your diet."
      • 1977 December 15,The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, page15, column 3:
        Guitarist Chris Stein is also against defining the music. When he sees a reporter with a notebook backstage after a concert he does robot impersonations saying, 'What is punk rock? What is punk rock? Brurruph, burruph, does notcompute.'

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    Translations

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    to reckon or calculate
    to make sense—seemake sense

    Noun

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    compute (uncountable)

    1. (chiefly cloud computing)Computational processing power.
      The GPU does not have enough on-chip SRAM memory for the parameters, and doesn't have enoughcompute for the entire model.
      • 2015, J. Powell,Mastering vRealize Automation 6.2, page41:
        Once you have the total, does it exceed the maximum amount ofcompute that can be served up in your vCenter environment? It is quite normal for users to consume everything you provide.
      • 2016, Joe Baron, Hisham Baz, Tim Bixler,AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam:
        To change the amount ofcompute and memory, you can select a different DB Instance class of the database.
      • 2020, Prashila Naik,Hands-on Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure Stack‎[1], BPB Publications,→ISBN:
        Compute, in many cases, is decoupled from the storage, making it easy to charge and pay for only what is consumed. It also becomes easy to scale up thecompute when needed depending on the type of service.

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    French

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    compute

    1. inflection ofcomputer:
      1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
      2. second-personsingularimperative

    Portuguese

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    • Hyphenation:com‧pu‧te

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    compute

    1. inflection ofcomputar:
      1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
      2. third-personsingularimperative

    Spanish

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /komˈpute/[kõmˈpu.t̪e]
    • Rhymes:-ute
    • Syllabification:com‧pu‧te

    Verb

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    compute

    1. inflection ofcomputar:
      1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
      2. third-personsingularimperative
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