• enPR: kəm-pyo͞ot', IPA: /kəmˈpjuːt/

compute (computes, present participle computing; simple past and past participle computed)

1. (transitive) To reckon, calculate.

   Can anyone here compute the square root of 10201?

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗, lines 680–687:

     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 we compute the dayes of Heav’n, / Since Michael and his Powers went forth to tame / Theſe diſobedient […]

   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC ↗:

     "When we have ascertained exactly how little will serve we shall be able to compute how long we shall be able to exist."

2. (intransitive, informal) To make sense. (commonly used in mimicry of a science fictional robot and spoken in a robotic voice; most frequently in negative constructs)

   Does that compute, or do I need to explain further?

• computation
• computational
• computer
• computing

• miscompute
• noncomputing
• recompute
• count

• French: computer, calculer
• German: berechnen, rechnen, errechnen
• Italian: computare, elaborare, calcolare
• Portuguese: computar, calcular
• Russian: вычисля́ть
• Spanish: computar, calcular

compute (uncountable)

1. (chiefly, cloud computing, informal) Computational processing power.

   The GPU does not have enough on-chip SRAM memory for the parameters, and doesn't have enough compute for the entire model.