(now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. / Hyponym: computress

the amount that a computer can hold.

(literally) The process or act of calculation. / (computer science) The use of a computer or computers. / The study of computers and computer programming.

present participle of compute

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. / The result of computation; the amount computed.

(transitive) To reckon, calculate. / (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)

(computing, informal) computation

(computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.

Capable of being computed, or enumerated. / (computing theory) Of a problem, solvable by a Turing machine or any thereto Turing-equivalent model; Turing-computable.

Of or relating to computation.