compute


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
compute/kəmˈpjuːt/
verb
  • 1 reckon or calculate (a figure or amount).
  • 2 [with neg.] informal seem reasonable; make sense.
– derivatives
computability noun,
computable adjective.
– origin C17: from Fr. computer or L. computare, from com- ‘together’ + putare ‘to settle (an account)’.
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