Usually means: Perform calculations using algorithmic processes.
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  1. compute: Merriam-Webster
  2. compute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compute: Vocabulary.com
  6. Compute, compute: Wordnik
  7. compute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. compute: Wiktionary
  9. compute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. compute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. compute: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Compute, compute: Dictionary.com
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  14. compute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Compute, Compute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Compute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. compute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. compute: Rhymezone
  19. Compute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. compute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. compute: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. compute: FreeDictionary.org
  23. compute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. compute: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. compute: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. compute: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. compute: CCI Computer
  2. compute: Encyclopedia

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  1. compute: Idioms

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  1. compute: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Compute: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To reckon, calculate.
verb:  (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)
noun:  (chiefly cloud computing, informal) Computational processing power.

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