Computation
[kɒmpjʊ'teɪʃ(ə)n] or ['kɑmpjʊ'teʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
(n.) The result of computation; the amount computed.
Editor: Timmy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Reckoning, calculation, estimate, account.
Typed by Chauncey
Examples
- On a moderate computation, it was many months, that Sunday, since I had left Joe and Biddy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Almost immediately, however, after the publication of the tables, fresh discrepancies arose between computation and observation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He said, by the best computation he could make, we were at least a hundred leagues. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- 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. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I know the distance now from San Antonio to Austin is but little over eighty miles, so that our computation was probably too high. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I presented him an inventory of a little printing-house, amounting by my computation to about one hundred pounds sterling. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- By the same computation, they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, tolerable enough for one who had been so long inured to hardships. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Sir Isaac Newton had stated, and mathematical computations had proved his words, that a mechanical flying-machine was an impossibility. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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