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computing meaning

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  • Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating algorithmic processes—e.g. through computers.
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    Definition of computing in English Dictionary

  • NounBFcomputePREcom-SUF-ing
    1. (literally) The process or act of calculation.
      1. Action of using (a) computer(s).
        1. The study, field of computers and computer programming.
          1. This course will cover several major fields of computing.
      2. VerbBFcomputeSGcomputesPT, PPcomputed
        1. present participle of compute.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • Here, we describe the tandemer approach for efficiently computing metabolite tandem mass-isotopomer distributions in a metabolic network, given an estimation of metabolic fluxes.
            • Whether physical processes can hypercompute, i. e. compute Turing uncomputable functions “ultimately depends upon the causal (versus formal) structure of the world” (p. 144).
            • A friend of mine having occasion to show this section to a party of 4 bristlers, states that they withdrew a pace and seemed to be computing among themselves.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Nouns
            • Singularia tantum
              • Uncountable nouns
            • Verbs
              • Verb forms
                • Participles
                  • Present participles
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            Meaning of computing for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "computing" is a noun, more specifically, a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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