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Synonyms for compute
Synonyms
calculate, cipher, figure, reckon, work out
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The insurer did not know which software was used, but a number of the systems are freely offered on the Web and require little sophistication, speech data or computing power. — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, "An artificial-intelligence first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft," 5 Sep. 2019 The insurer did not know which software was used, but a number of the systems are freely offered on the Web and require little sophistication, speech data or computing power. — Drew Harwell, Anchorage Daily News, "An artificial-intelligence first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft," 5 Sep. 2019 Amazon Web Services has a cloud-computing platform specifically for government agencies, which has to meet stringent security standards in order to handle sensitive information. — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, "Amazon is developing high-tech surveillance tools for an eager customer: America's police," 8 Aug. 2019 Since 1970 the only notable outlier has been the exponential increase in computing power, which has trickled down to consumers in the form of the Internet and our ever present mobile devices. — Wade Roush, Scientific American, "Despite What You Might Think, Major Technological Changes Are Coming More Slowly Than They Once Did," 13 Aug. 2019 That includes its business that rents computing power to other companies, as well as its enterprise software tools such as G Suite. — Washington Post, "Google crushes second quarter earnings expectations," 25 July 2019 The contrasting messages of the inviting phrase and ferocious creature did not compute. — Lisa Bonos, Dallas News, "Romance novelist Helen Hoang writes about love on the autism spectrum," 23 July 2019 Microsoft is investing dollars that will be fed back into its own business, as OpenAI purchases computing power from the software giant, and the collaboration between the two companies could yield a wide array of technologies. — New York Times, "With $1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain," 22 July 2019 This design locks out potential troublemakers, allowing Libra to use a more lightweight consensus mechanism: one that won't consume vast amounts of computing power—and energy—like bitcoin's proof-of-work approach. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "There’s a big problem with Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency," 11 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'compute.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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