Computation
[kɒmpjʊ'teɪʃ(ə)n] or ['kɑmpjʊ'teʃən]
解释:
(n.) The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
(n.) The result of computation; the amount computed.
校对:蒂米
同义词及近义词：
n. Reckoning, calculation, estimate, account.
昌西整理
例句:
- On a moderate computation, it was many months, that Sunday, since I had left Joe and Biddy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Almost immediately, however, after the publication of the tables, fresh discrepancies arose between computation and observation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- He said, by the best computation he could make, we were at least a hundred leagues. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- I know the distance now from San Antonio to Austin is but little over eighty miles, so that our computation was probably too high. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The influence of the steam engine upon the history and destiny of the world is an impressive subject, far beyond any intelligent computation or estimate. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- I presented him an inventory of a little printing-house, amounting by my computation to about one hundred pounds sterling. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- By the same computation, they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, tolerable enough for one who had been so long inured to hardships. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Sir Isaac Newton had stated, and mathematical computations had proved his words, that a mechanical flying-machine was an impossibility. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Computations based upon this experiment show that the earth receives daily from the sun the equivalent of 341,000,000,000 horse power--an amount inconceivable to the human mind. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
伊米莉亚整理